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Definitions: Renovate |
RenovateVerb1. Restore art works or antiques. 2. Make brighter and prettier, as of a house. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "renovate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Synonyms: RenovateSynonyms: freshen up (v), refurbish (v), restitute (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Reproduction | Verb: reproduce; restore; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate, revivify, resuscitate, reanimate; remake, refashion, stir the embers, put into the crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge. |
Restoration | Reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute; reconvert; renew, renovate; regenerate; rejuvenate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Renovate |
| English words defined with "renovate": Instaurate, Instaure ♦ Renovel, revamp ♦ To refresh the memory. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "renovate": LUGGAGE MAKER ♦ SUPERVISOR, INSTRUMENT REPAIR. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Many institutions in Buenos Aires are planning to renovate and expand. (references) | |
End-users of this type of services can be any company, government organization, or private individual that is planning to build, renovate, or design a new or existing project. (references) | ||
The Spanish food industry's effort to renovate and upgrade their facilities, particularly during the last decade, has resulted in increased imports not only of complete food processing equipment and/or systems but also of parts and accessories to be incorporated into locally manufactured systems. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | Muslim groups claim that the Government has been reluctant to renovate mosques in areas in which there no longer is a Muslim population. (references) |
Turkey | Syriac Christians have been allowed to renovate their historic buildings in Mardin, although their efforts remain closely monitored by the authorities. (references) | |
Russia | Jehovah's Witnesses and Baptists in Moscow and other regions continued to have trouble leasing assembly space and obtaining the necessary permits to renovate buildings. (references) | |
Economic History | Burma | It may change locations, modify and renovate existing space and upgrade machinery or equipment. (references) |
Eq. Guinea | The British company Incat has an ongoing project with the Government to renovate and expand Luba, the country's third largest port which is located on Bioko Island. (references) | |
Bulgaria | Privatization of state -owned facilities is still ongoing, together with plans to modernize, refurbish and renovate facilities to enable them to be used throughout the year. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bahamas | Prison officials plan to renovate the current maximum-security unit once the new building is in service. (references) |
Haiti | It also provides funding on an as needed basis to clear prison septic tanks and renovate bathroom facilities. (references) | |
Colombia | The Justice Ministry made significant progress in implementing its plan, announced in February 2000, to renovate prisons and build 11 new prisons and expand prison capacity by 18,000 persons by 2003. During the year, the Government renovated prisons in Valledupar, Acacias, Popayan, Barne, and the high security pavilion in Bogota's La Picota penitentiary. (references) | |
Travel | Sri Lanka | Stand-alone homes with yards are available, but often require extensive effort and resources to renovate and maintain. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | The investment enabled the railway company to buy new passenger trains and wagons, and renovate the existing rail network. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Burma | There also have been credible reports that government officials and security forces compelled both Buddhists and non-Buddhists to contribute money, food, and uncompensated labor to build, renovate, or maintain Buddhist shrines or monuments. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Renovate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 71.67% of the time. "Renovate" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 71.67% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 28.33% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
renovate | 48 |
america renovate | 12 |
home renovate | 5 |
renovate kitchen | 5 |
renovate volunteer | 3 |
house renovate | 3 |
available azure cote d renovate still | 3 |
renovate bathroom | 3 |
paint renovate | 3 |
garage renovate | 2 |
home mobile renovate | 2 |
cottage french renovate small | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "renovate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | riparoj (do up, doctor, fix, mend, recondition, refit, rehabilitate, renew, repair, solder), ripërtërij, rinovoj (do up, recondition, refurbish), freskoj (cool, fresh, freshen, refresh, update). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جدد (freshen, furbish, innovate, modernize, reawaken, recondition, redeem, refurbish, regenerate, rejuvenate, renew, repair, restore, retrieve), أحيا (enliven, inspirit, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize, revive), أصلح (amend, fix, mend, overhaul, pacify, piece, reclaim, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, refit, reform, rehabilitate, repair, retrieve, rig, right, see, set right), رمم (furbish, mend, patch, recondition, reconstructed, redeem, refit, refurbish, refurbishment, rehabilitate, repair, restore, revamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съживявам (animate, awake, enliven, galvanize, pull round, raise, rally, reanimate, regenerate, resurrect, resuscitate, revive, revivify, wake), сменям с нов (renew), реставрирам (restore), ремонтирам (mend, recondition, redo, refit, remodel, repair, service), възстановявам (fix up, furbish, get better, give back, make good, mend, re establish, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, recover, reedify, re-enact, regenerate, reinstate, repair, restore, revive, revivify), освежавам (exhilarate, freshen, freshen up, invigorate, irrigate, recreate, refresh, rub up), обновявам (reanimate, recall, rejuvenate, renew, vitalize), поправям (adjust, alter, amend, blue pencil, castigate, cobble, correct, do up, doctor, emend, fix, fix up, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, remedy, repair, retouch, retrieve, revamp, revise, service, true, vamp), подновявам (do up, furbish, novelise, novelize, redintegrate, refurbish, renew, reopen, reproduce, restore, resume, revamp, take up, vamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 更新 (renew, renewal, renewed, renewing, renovated, update, updating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | renovovat (restore), opravit (amend, correct, emend, fix, improve, mend, recondition, rectify, refit, repair, retouch, revise, touch up), obnovit (give back, re establish, rebuild, redintegrate, regenerate, reinstate, renew, reproduce, restore, resume, retrieve, revamp, revive, rub up), modernizovat (modernize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | renovere (renew), forny (renew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | renoveren (renew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نوکردن (Renew), تعمیرکردن (Imp, Mend, Patch, Refashion, Refit, Rehash, Remodel, Repair, Restore, Tinker, Vamp), ازسرگرفتن (Resume), بازنوساختن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uudistaa (innovate, reconstruct, renew, reorganize, repeat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | rénover (recondition, redecorate, redeem, redevelop, repair, restore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | renovieren (do up, redecorate, refurbish, to redecorate, to renovate, upholster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανακαινίζω (do out, do over, recondition, redecorate, reface, reform, refurbish, revamp, vamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tataroz (to put in repair, to refit), megújít (reform, regenerate, reiterate, renew, to reform, to regenerate, to renew, to renovate), helyreállít (do up, re establish, reconstruct, redress, restore, to accommodate, to put in repair, to recondition, to recruit, to refit, to renovate, to right, to set sg to rights). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ristrutturare (do up, remodel, restore, restructure), rinnovare (be renewed, change, furbish, happen again, redecorate, refurbish, renew, repeat), restaurare (clean, remove spots, remove stains, repair, restore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aanoaghey (refresher, rejuvenate, renew, renewal, renovation), aachummey (deform, deformation, hash up, reconstitute, reconstitution, reform, reformation, remodel, renew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enovateray renovar (bud, coppicing, furbish, modernize, recondition, refit, refurbish, renew, resprouting, restore, update). (various references) restaura (rehabilitate, restore), repara (cobble, darn, doctor, fix, fix up, make amends for, make good, mend, overhaul, piece, readjust, reclaim, rectify, redress, reduce, refit, repair, retrieve), renova (do, recondition, renew, repair, restore), reîntineri (rejuvenate), reînnoi (piece up, redintegrate, renew, reopen, repeat, resume), drege (arrange, darn, doctor, Flavor, flavour, juggle, mend, piece, readjust, refit, renew, repair, restore, retouch, season, set to rights, spice, tinker, vamp up), înnoi (furbish, innovate, refresh, renew). (various references) восстанавливать (back out, deoxidize, indispose, re establish, reactivate, reassure, rebuild, reclaim, reconstruct, recover, re-create, recuperate, redintegrate, redress, reedify, reenable, re-enable, re-establish, refurbish, regain, reinstate, renew, revive, undelete, unremove), освежать (brush up, fan, freshen, freshen up, refresh, rub up), поправлять (correct, re establish, rearrange, rectify, reinstate, repair). (various references) nuadhaich. (various references) renovirati, obnoviti (re establish, reestablish, refurbish, renew). (various references) restaurar (bring back, do up, furbish up, refurbish, restore, to restore), renovar (do up, innovate, redecorate, refuel, renew). (various references) renovera (furbish up, recondition, refurbish). (various references) yenilemek (make over, modernize, rebuild, recondition, re-create, redintegrate, refurbish, rejuvenate, renew, revamp, touch up, vamp up), tazelemek (brush up, freshen, freshen up, recreate, refresh, renew, rub up, top up), tamir etmek (cobble, debug, do up, fix, mend, recondition, redintegrate, refit, rehabilitate, repair, service, tinker up), onarmak (debug, doctor, mend, patch up, redress, refit, remedy, repair, restore, tinker up). (various references) tдzelemek (renew, replace). (various references) оновлятися, оновляти (novate), підновлювати (refurbish). (various references) adnewyddu (renew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nova, novas, novate, novem, noveris, novo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "renovate": renovated, renovates. (additional references) | |
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"Renovate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ennovate, reinnervate, rennovate, renovare, Venavae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "renovate" (pronounced re"nuvā't) |
| 5 | -n u v ā' t | innovate. |
| 4 | -u v ā' t | activate, aggravate, cultivate, elevate, excavate, motivate, reactivate, salivate. |
| 3 | -v ā' t | captivate, deactivate, inactivate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: overneat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-o-r-t-v" | |
-1 letter: nervate, overate, overeat, veteran. | |
-2 letters: atoner, entera, neater, ornate, revote, tavern, venter, vetoer. | |
-3 letters: antre, arete, atone, avert, eaten, eater, enate, enter, event, evert, nerve, never, noter, novae, oaten, oater, orate, ovate, overt, ranee, raven, reave, rente, revet, roven, tenor, terne, toner, trave, treen, trona, trone, trove, veena, venae, voter. | |
-4 letters: aeon, aero, ante. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-o-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: overeaten, overtaken, renovated, renovates, venerator. | |
+2 letters: contravene, covenanter, enervation, gravestone, nonveteran, overbeaten, overeating, overmantel, renovative, revelation, veneration, venerators. | |
+3 letters: contravened, contravener, contravenes, covenanters, denervation, enervations, enteroviral, exonerative, governorate, gravestones, inoperative, neuroactive, noncreative, nonreactive, nonrelative, nonrelevant, nonveterans, outmaneuver, overanxiety, overbeating, overearnest, overgarment, overheating, overinflate, overmantels, overpayment, overplanted, overtrained, personative, rejuvenator, reservation, revelations, venerations. | |
+4 letters: abortiveness, antitakeover, asseveration, consecrative, conservative, conservatize, contraveners, denervations, evisceration, extraversion, galvanometer, governmental, governorates, nonassertive, nonoperative, nonrelatives, outmaneuvers, overgarments, overinflated, overinflates, overornament, overpayments, overreacting, overreaction, overstrained, overtreating, overwatering, photoengrave, preservation, reevaluation, reinvigorate, rejuvenation, rejuvenators, reservations, revegetation, seronegative, ventromedial. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6E 6F 76 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -. --- ...- .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101110 01101111 01110110 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e n o v a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006E 006F 0076 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271808188678671 |
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