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单词 remodel
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remodeln.

Brit. /(ˌ)riːˈmɒdl/, U.S. /riˈmɑd(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: remodel v.
Etymology: < remodel v.
1. An act or instance of changing the form or structure of something; the action or process of making such a change.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > conversion to new purpose or remodelling
remodel1833
conversion1921
1833 App. Rep. Sel. Comm. Affairs E.-India Company 1832 (House of Commons) iv. 396 We may go further in the general break up of the old and the remodel of a new system.
1866 E. Meteyard Life J. Wedgwood II. x. 490 Whether it was a remodel of the Duke of Marlborough's famous cameo as modelled by Hackwood, or the same figures in another manner and attitude, is not apparent.
1875 W. W. Lloyd Age of Pericles II. xxxiv. 22 The institution had..been affected..by a series of changes,..and were now on the point of resulting in a remodel which involved a social revolution scarcely less important than the political.
1924 Times 18 Sept. 13/6 The ship-owners and underwriters thought this a convenient time and place for discussing and if possible completing the remodel of the York-Antwerp Rules.
1998 K. Eshun More Brilliant than Sun vii. 95 (heading) Grace Jones'..remodel of Joy Division's..She's Lost Control updates the 50s mechanical bride.
2. Chiefly Architecture. A building, room, etc., that has undergone extensive structural or decorative alterations; (also) a building that imitates an authentic style; the action or an act of remodelling a building.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [noun] > reparation
boota1000
reparation?a1425
reformation1449
repair1524
rebuild1826
work1828
renovation1907
do-over1920
remodel1956
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > that which is built or constructed > [noun] > a thing rebuilt
remodel1956
rebuild1960
reno1988
1956 Archit. Rev. 120 119/3 Rethinking is needed on the difference between surface grime on a noble building and a cut-rate remodel which might well show a fundamental lack of architectural conviction or emotive power.
1974 R. C. Dennis Conversations with Corpse ii. 15 A house, French Regency, I think... I imagine it's a remodel.
1978 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Dec. 90/3 In a remodel (existing house) we have to be neater, and work slower.
1986 J. P. Jones Handbk. Constr. Contracting I. (end matter) 415/1 (advt.) How to add economical improvements that can increase the property value by two, five or even ten times the cost of the remodel.
1991 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 7 June Kitchen remodel (includes new doors, screens, opening up walls..).
2002 Nat. Home July–Aug. 41/1 If we were designing this from scratch, we could have used a passive solar strategy with all daylighting, but you have less control over things like that with a remodel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

remodelv.

Brit. /(ˌ)riːˈmɒdl/, U.S. /riˈmɑd(ə)l/
Inflections: Present participle remodelling, (chiefly U.S.) remodeling; past tense and past participle remodelled, (chiefly U.S.) remodeled;
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, model v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + model v.
transitive. To model again; to change the form or structure of (an institution, object, etc.); to update or restyle (a building, etc.) esp. by carrying out extensive building work. Also intransitive. Cf. new-model v.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > fashion anew [verb (transitive)]
reforge1542
unfashion1569
to make over1582
refashion1613
remodel1660
remake1766
recast1790
new-dress1795
rework1837
rejigger1899
rejig1948
jigger1961
1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina ii. 197 The Court was upon this occasion remodelled, and all those who had been Sophanders confidents, were either imprisoned or disgraced, as persons in whom the King could not confide.
1675 tr. N. Machiavelli Disc. Livy ii, in Wks. 270 That City must needs be in some measure unhappy, which, not having submitted to, or complyed with the prudence of a single founder, is necessitated of it self to remodel and reform.
1764 J. Smeaton Reports (1812) II. 153 Mr. Jessop..will be enabled to re-model his estimate.
1790 New Ann. Reg. 1789 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 14/2 That assembly was wholly incompetent to the task of re-modelling the constitution.
1830 E. Bulwer-Lytton Paul Clifford II. vii. 197 A stray trinket or two—not of sufficient worth to be re-set or re-modelled.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 121 From the time when the army was remodelled to the time when it was disbanded.
1879 M. Pattison Milton 46 All traditions were being questioned, and all institutions were to be remodelled.
1925 Lincoln (Nebraska) Sunday Star 25 Oct. (Hotel section) 1/7 The entire Hotel Lincoln has been remodeled, replumbed, redecorated, and refurnished at a cost of half a million dollars.
1948 H. Hall Home Dress-making Simplified xxxiii. 311 The safe plan, when remodeling, is to fit a master pattern in muslin.
1973 F. A. Hayek Law, Legislation & Liberty i. 33 The desire to remodel society after the image of individual man..since Hobbes has governed rationalist political theory.
2001 Evening Standard 21 Sept. (ES Mag.) 22/3 The Ford Fiesta is being remodelled and marketed with an underground ‘buzz campaign’ aimed at the young.

Derivatives

reˈmodelled adj. that has been remodelled.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [adjective]
new-dressed1653
remodelled1798
recast1816
rejigged1966
makeover1977
1798 Ann. Reg. 1792 (Rivington ed.) i. Hist. Europe 217/2 He soon saw the advantage of making himself eminent among the interior masons of the grand Orient, and taking the lead in one of the remodelled lodges at Paris, advised them, [etc.].
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 119 At Naseby took place the first great encounter between the royalists and the remodelled army.
1958 J. Cheever Jrnls. (1991) 93 Sitting in a broken rocking chair in a remodelled toolshed where I make my living writing stories about the country-club set.
2001 Daily Tel. 12 June 22/2 They are getting to work in a remodelled Whitehall full of unfamiliar departments and acronyms—Defra, Dewop and even the DTLGR.
reˈmodelling n. the action or process of remodelling, an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [noun]
reworking?1608
remodelling1785
refashioning1799
refashionment1829
remodelment1838
recast1841
réchauffage1847
reshaping1872
rejigging1884
rejiggering1920
re-profiling1962
rejig1965
1785 T. Jefferson Let. 7 Aug. in R. Price Corr. (1991) II. 299 The college of William and Mary in Williamsburg, since the remodelling of it's plan, is the place where are collected together all the young men of Virginia under preparation for public life.
1800 J. Dallaway Anecd. Arts Eng. i. iv. 83 Plans have been given for the remodelling of the whole staircase.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §10. 579 The few murmurers were weeded from its ranks by a careful remodelling.
1998 N.Y. Times 15 Oct. c4/3 Floor-to-ceiling remodeling of several decrepit stores..have begun to attract customers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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