Reinvent
[riːɪn'vent]
Definition
(verb.) create anew and make over; 'He reinvented African music for American listeners'.
(verb.) bring back into existence; 'The candidate reinvented the concept of national health care so that he would get elected'.
Typist: Marvin--From WordNet
Definition
v.t. to create anew or independently.—n. Reinven′tion.
Typist: Vilma
Examples
- Substantially the same device in principle has been reinvented and incorporated in patents numerous times since. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Reinvented by Page and Baude in England, 1543. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1758 John Dolland reinvented and introduced the same in the manufacture of telescopes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The process of making cast steel was reinvented in England by Benjamin Huntsman of Attercliff, near Sheffield, about 1740. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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