Remake

  

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Remake

Definitions: Remake

Remake

Noun

1. Creation that is created again or anew; "it is a remake of an old film".

Verb

1. Make anew.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "remake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

 

Synonyms: Remake

Synonyms: remaking (n), make over (v), redo (v), refashion (v). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Remake

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A remake is a film that has the same story, and often the same title, as a film that was made earlier. In the course of film history, remakes have generally been considered inferior to the earlier versions, by film critics and cinema-goers alike, but there have been memorable exceptions to that generalization.

Remakes of major films include:

See also:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Remake."

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Synonyms within Context: Remake

ContextSynonyms 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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Remake

English words defined with "remake": Remade, remaking. (references)
Specialty definitions using "remake": Electronic Performance Support System. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Remake" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (remake), Italian (remake).

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Modern Usage: Remake

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Remake (2003)

Kappert 1: Die Briefmarke - Das Remake (1995)

Remake (1987)

1988: The Remake (1977)

The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Remake

DomainTitle

Books

  • Biography as Theology: How Life Stories Can Remake Today's Theology (reference)

  • Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video) (reference)

  • How to Take an Exam...and Remake the World (reference)

  • It Ain't Necessarily So: How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality (reference)

  • Kill or Cure?: How Canadians Can Remake Their Health Care System (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Remake

AuthorQuotation

Robert Browning

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

Stuart Chase

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Remake

"Remake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.81% of the time. "Remake" is used about 86 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)55.81%4849,194
Lexical Verb (infinitive)31.4%2766,962
Lexical Verb (base form)12.79%11106,044
                    Total100.00%86N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Remake

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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79

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6

chain massacre remake saw texas

47

battle galactica remake star

5

carrie remake

34

king kong remake

5

7 fantasy final remake

23

remake tall walking

5

remake willy wonka

22

deile devel down nelson remake went willie

5

evil remake resident

21

gear metal remake solid

4

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21

away drift remake

4

boy remake summer

16

phantasy remake star

4

remake stepford wife

15

charlie chocolate factory remake

4

fantasy final remake vii

10

carrie cast remake

4

ark lost raider remake

9

dawn dead remake script

4

raider remake

8

cry little remake sister

4

1988 remake

7

king quest remake

4

italian job remake

7

remake willie wonka

4

lot remake salems

7

remake warrior

4

chain remake saw texas

7

logans remake run

4

evil remake resident through walk

6

fantasy final remake

3

chocolate factory remake willy wonka

6

day dead remake

3

remake ultima

6

forbidden planet remake

3

heaven bryan adam remake

6

remake shining

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Remake

Language Translations for "remake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ribërje, ribëj (redo, unmake), xhirim i ri, ndreq (adjust, arrange, change, clear, correct, dispose, dress, fix up, make amends, mend, piece, rectify, redress, refit, reform, reinstate, remedy, repair, revise, spruce up, Square, straighten, tidy up, touch up, tune up), bëj përsëri (reiterate). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏معاد صنعه (remaking), ‏طبعة جديدة, ‏طبعة ثانية, ‏صنع ثانية, ‏شىء معاد الصنع أو مجدد. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

нова версия, преправям (alter, bushel, convert, do over, rebuild, redo, reshape), правя отново. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

重制 (Remade, remaking). (various references)

   

Czech

  

přetvořit (remodel, transform, transmute), předìlat (alter, change, do over, overdo, re-do), nové zpracování filmu. (various references)

   

Danish

  

omsætte (recompose, remake up, remodel, reset), ombryde (make into page, remake up, remodel). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

in de vorm omzetten (remake up, remodel). (various references)

   

French

  

refaire (redo, repair). (various references)

   

German

  

Neugestaltung (conversion, redevelopment, renewal, renovation, reorganization, replanning, reshaping), Neuauflage (new edition, reissue, reprint). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξανακάνω (redo), ξαναφτιάχνω (do again, make again, make up), μεταποιώ (alter, remodel). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מ""ור" מחו"שת. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

újra csinál, átformál (remade, to remake, to resculpture, to reshape, to transmogrify), átalakít (convert, metamorphose, modify, remodel, reshuffle, revamp, to convert, to do up, to make over, to realign, to reblock, to reshape, to reshuffle, to retrofit, to transfigure, to transform, to translate, to transmogrify, to transmute, transform, transmogrify, transmute). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

membuat lagi. (various references)

   

Italian

  

remake. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

リ ド鋼 (lute, rearcar, remote, remote car, remote control, remote directory, remote sensing, remote switch, rheumatism, rimland, rimmed steel, sledge). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

リメーク . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

개작하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

jannoo ass y noa (innovate, renew, repeat). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emakeray

   

Portuguese

  

refazer (realign, rebuild, recast, reconstruct, rehash, remodel, repeat), reconstruir (realign, rebuild, reconstruct, reedify), voltar a fazer (redo), transformar (convert, make known, metamorphosis, process, queer, reduce, remodel, ruffle, to transform, transform, translate, transmute, turn, turn into), modificação (alteration, converting, deformation, infectious, modification, modify, mute, phase, qualification, reform, reformation, transformation, turn, veering, vicissitude), converter (bring over, change, convert, make into, proselyte, proselytize, reduce, transform), arranjar (accomodate, achieve, acquire, adjust, arrange, calculate, catch, collate, curry, do, do up, dress, fare, figure up, filibeg, find, fix, fix up, get, lay, lay out, make, nib, obtain, order, organize, patch, pick, pick up, pitch, place, prepare, procure, put in order, schedule, settle, size, square up, tidy, titivate, to arrange, trim), alteração (alteration, amendment, change, change over, codicil, corrosion, displacement, disturbance, falsification, gale, gerrymander, modification, permutation, transmutation, trans-shipment, turn, variation). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

reface (change, do over, do up, re establish, rebuild, recast, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recover, recruit, redress, reform, remodel, repair, restore, retread, retrieve), prelucra (adapt, analyse, analyze, change, discuss, elaborate, enlighten, machine, operate, pick smb.'s brain, process, recast, study, transform, work, work over). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

переделывать (adapt, alter, customize, makeover, readjust, recast, recondition, redo, re-do, re-done, rehash, remade, remodel, revamp, rework, turn, unmake). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prepravka (alter, alteration, redecoration), prepraviti (alter, redecorate, redo, remodel, revamp, rework). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rehacer (do over, hash smth. up, redo, re-do, refashion, revamp, rework, rewrite), refundición (adaptation, rearrangement, revision, rewrite), volver a hacer (do over, redo, renew), nueva versión (rewrite). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nyinspelning, göra om (redo, revamp), göra en nyinspelning av. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำใหม่ (furbish up, renew), าพยนตร์ที่สร้างใหม่. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yeniden yapmak (rebuild, redo, reiterate), yeniden çevirmek, yeniden çevirme, yeni versiyon, tekrar yapmak (do again, redo). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

переробка (adaptation, alteration, elaboration, readjustment, recast, revision), переробляти (adapt, alter, change, do again, furbish up, make over, readjust, recast, re-do, rehash, remodel, revise, rework, transverse, turn over, work over). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Remake

Derivations

Words beginning with "remake": remaker, remakers, remakes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Remake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cempaka, merauke, Rabaka, Ramak, refake, Rehage, remac, Remagen, remane, remate, remek, remock, renac, rigaku, rimac, Rineke, rusalki, rwmac, Sremska, Wemicke. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Remake"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "remake" (pronounced rē"mā"k)
3-m ā" kmake.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Remake

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-k-m-r"

-1 letter: ameer, maker, rakee, ramee.

-2 letters: akee, kame, make, mare, mark, meek, mere, merk, rake, ream, reek.

-3 letters: are, ark, arm, ear, eke, eme, era, ere, kae, kea, mae, mar, ram, ree, rem.

-4 letters: ae, am, ar, em, er, ka, ma, me, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-k-m-r"
 

+1 letter: meerkat, remaker, remakes.

 

+2 letters: bedmaker, brakemen, demarked, diemaker, embarked, icemaker, mackerel, makeover, marketed, marketer, meerkats, reembark, remakers, remarked, remarker, remarket, teamaker, telemark, yarmelke.

 

+3 letters: bedmakers, dekameter, diemakers, dreamlike, earmarked, homemaker, icemakers, mackerels, makeovers, makeready, marketeer, marketers, newmarket, newsmaker, pacemaker, premarket, reembarks, remarkers, remarkets, shoemaker, teamakers, telemarks, winemaker, yarmelkes.

 

+4 letters: dekameters, dekametric, dressmaker, embarkment, gamekeeper, homemakers, markedness, marketable, marketeers, merrymaker, moneymaker, moviemaker, newmarkets, newsmakers, noisemaker, pacemakers, papermaker, peacemaker, platemaker, reembarked, remarkable, remarketed, shoemakers, steelmaker, tastemaker, unremarked, winemakers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Remake


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 6D 61 6B 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01101101 01100001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#109 &#97 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 006D 0061 006B 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527179677771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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