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How to use redefine in a sentence

18 example sentences · verb

Redefine means to define again or differently. Example: “The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.”

Examples of redefine by meaning

verbTo define again or differently.

  • Brian Schweitzer of Montana) who might be, even now, redefining in certain far-reaching ways what it means to be a Democrat.2007 January 7, Deirdre Mcnamer, “They Came From Montana”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021

verbTo define a previously defined area of storage etc. in a different manner, e.g. changing it from textual to numeric.

  • These were special programs that could "redefine" the keys on your keyboard , while still permitting you the normal use of the keys.1992, Herman Holtz, Databased Marketing, page 170

More sentences with redefine

  • The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.From the entry genre
  • The film The Matrix redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.From the entry cyberpunk
  • The next prime minister must redefine Brexit as a One Nation project.2019 May 18, George Freeman, Nicky Morgan, Bim Afolami, Chloe Smith, Nicholas Soames, “One Nation conservatism can make a success of…. From the entry one nation
  • Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement.2018 November 13, Matthew Robinson and Lianne Kolirin, “The world has just redefined the kilogram”, in CNN. From the entry vote
  • My Little Pony is redefining manhood and that deserves a brohoof.2014 March 19, Hugh Johnson, “Of bronies and men: Rethinking manliness”, in The Denver Post. From the entry brohoof
  • In other words, I would redefine how John was hitting the strikes," Ken explains.1990, Modern Drummer: MD. - Volume 14, Issues 7-12, page 170. From the entry velocitize
  • They're arguably the same thing – demaking redefines developing for lower specs as an art form deserving celebration.2023, Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, “Maxing the Minimum: Inside the Often-thankless, Quietly Imaginative Task of Developing for Low-spec Gaming”…. From the entry demake
  • In one brave and defiant performance, she redefined the patriarchal constructions of beauty, femininity, and womynhood for all who saw her.2008, Laurie J Kendall, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. From the entry womynhood
  • Motordom told versions of history that celebrated progress in transportation while redefining it as the ever-expanding reach of cars and motor roads.2020, Peter D. Norton, chapter 2, in Frank Schipper, Martin Emanuel, Ruth Oldenziel, editors, A U-Turn to the Future: Sustainable Urban…. From the entry motordom
  • Big Pharma has redefined the symptomatology of medical conditions in such a way as to expand enormously the market for its drugs.2012, James Le Fanu, “Bitter Pills to Swallow”, in Literary Review, number 399. From the entry symptomatology
  • Whitlam redefined the Labor Party as the party of Deakinite liberalism and the natural home of good public servants like his father.2003, Judith Brett, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard, page 145. From the entry public servant
  • It seems as if the openness of information needs to be redefined, not only through political or technocratical means, but also culturally.1999, Winy Maas, Jennifer Sigler, Metacity Datatown, →ISBN, page 214. From the entry technocratical
  • Meanwhile, its original inhabitants were kept out by dint of force, their earlier uses of the land redefined as inappropriate or even illegal.1995, William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”, in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place…. From the entry blackfoot
  • Ulman's project was an acerbic take on “Instafame,” a phenomenon that is reshaping and redefining the very idea of a “star” and their relationship to their audience.2019, Daniel Palmer, Kate Warren, “Scarlett Johansson Falling Down: Memes, Photography and Celebrity Personas”, in Janice Loreck, Kirsten…. From the entry Instafame
  • By conflating names of various lakes and rivers so as to redefine the course of the Tanaïs, these accounts play with the imaginary boundaries between Asia and Europe.2010, Zachary Sng, The Rhetoric of Error from Locke to Kleist, page 158. From the entry Tanaïs
  • The book has been mocked and criticised, especially by intellectuals, but offers to the writer a redefining and poetically suggestful reading of the way men are in the contemporary world.2011, Adrian May, Myth and Creative Writing: The Self-Renewing Song, Harlow, Essex: Longman, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry suggestful

Meaning of redefine

  1. verb To define again or differently.
  2. verb To give a new or different definition to (a word).
  3. verb To define a previously defined area of storage etc. in a different manner, e.g. changing it from textual to numeric.

Full definition of redefine

Questions about redefine in a sentence

How do you use redefine in a sentence?
Redefine is used as a verb. For example: “The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.”
What is a short sentence with redefine?
“The computer game Half-Life redefined the first-person shooter genre.”
What does redefine mean?
Redefine means to define again or differently.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: redefine (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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