REDEFINE

redefine

(verb) give a new or different definition of (a word)

redefine

(verb) give a new or different definition to; “She redefined his duties”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

redefine (third-person singular simple present redefines, present participle redefining, simple past and past participle redefined)

(transitive) To define again or differently.

(transitive) To give a new or different definition to (a word).

(transitive, computing) To define an area of storage, that has already been defined, in a different manner, e.g. changing it from textual to numeric.

Anagrams

• fineered, need-fire, needfire

Source: Wiktionary



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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