单词 | rejig |
释义 | rejign. Reorganization, rearrangement; an instance of this, a restructuring. Cf. reshuffle n. 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 the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > giving orderly structure to something > reorganization reorganization1751 reassortment1767 rearrangement1778 restructure1811 remaniement1825 reorg1859 reformulation1884 rejigging1884 realignment1896 restructuring1932 restructuration1939 shake-out1939 rejig1965 1965 New Statesman 23 Apr. 630/1 The Sunday Citizen, for all its admitted demerits (which may yet be rectified if still another rejig..is accomplished effectively). 1974 Guardian Weekly 10 Aug. 5/1 The idea of the late-night front page rejig is unknown. 1983 Times 2 July 5/5 The great successes include..a courageous and fascinating rejig of ‘Wichita's’ complicated sonic montage. 1997 Investors Chron. 19 Sept. 63/3 A rejig of its disparate businesses into a divisional structure should also help the workings of the group as a whole. 2002 Empire Dec. 76/2 Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle's The 51st State finally makes it over to the US of A, with a little rejig. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rejigv. 1. transitive. To jig (ore) again (see jig v. 5). ΚΠ 1848 W. W. Smyth in Mem. Geol. Surv. Great Brit. II. ii. 677 ‘Ragging’, re-jigged once or twice, and re-divided according to circumstances. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 439 The fine material passing through the revolving screen is further concentrated on percussion-tables.., or is rejigged on the extra three-sieved jigging machine. 1912 Tyrone (Pa.) Herald 21 Mar. The ore washers at Scotia have been kept in operation..washing and rejigging the dump that has accumulated there. 1920 J. P. D. Hull Rep. Barytes Deposits Georgia 90 Hutch from 1st cell rejigged. 1973 Q. Colo. Sch. Mines Oct. 124 The fines from the cleaner jig are removed in a dewatering classifier and the sand product passes to a rod mill and is then rejigged. 2. transitive. To rearrange, refashion, or alter, esp. so as to make better or to adapt for a particular purpose (originally and frequently in technical contexts); to refit or re-equip; to mend, fix. 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 the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > reduce to order > give structure to or organize > reorganize reorganize1686 recompose1798 reformulate1869 realign1910 restructure1932 rejig1948 reorg1989 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [verb (transitive)] beetc975 menda1200 amenda1250 rightc1275 botcha1382 reparela1382 cure1382 repaira1387 dighta1400 emend1411 to mend up1479 restablishc1500 help1518 trimc1520 redub1522 reparate1548 accommodate1552 reinstaure1609 reconcinnate1623 to do up1647 righta1656 fixa1762 doctor1829 vamp1837 service1916 rejig1976 1948 Daily Express 22 Apr. 1/6 Britain will send experts to help rejig French factories. 1958 Spectator 2 May 558/1 To alter the period of the action [of Twelfth Night], to rejig the entrances and exits of the characters..is really a kind of forgery. 1976 A. White Long Silence iv. 34 Three [weeks]..he spent with Jean Duclerc, helping re-jig the wireless. 1996 Times 13 Nov. 38/4 The piece has now been much rejigged and, in my view, significantly improved. 2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Dec. 81/3 A little later, Rickman..rejigged his presentation somewhat, in a book that came to be known as Rickman's Gothic Architecture. Derivatives reˈjigged adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > making or fashioning anew > [adjective] new-dressed1653 remodelled1798 recast1816 rejigged1966 makeover1977 the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > relating to organization > organized > reorganized reorganized1812 restructured1936 rejigged1966 1966 Times 5 Feb. 4/5 Chelsea—at full strength against a rejigged Fulham side reinforced by Leggatt at outside right—have quietly crept up to sixth position. 1993 Wire Feb. 20/1 Today, Donatoni..has done it all: Bartokian rhapsody, serialism, chance-music and now a kind of rejigged classicism streaked with minimalist flash. reˈjigging n. 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 the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > putting in order > giving orderly structure to something > reorganization reorganization1751 reassortment1767 rearrangement1778 restructure1811 remaniement1825 reorg1859 reformulation1884 rejigging1884 realignment1896 restructuring1932 restructuration1939 shake-out1939 rejig1965 1884 Ann. Rep. Commissioner for Mneral Statistics Michigan 80 In the Hecla mill there will be 168 Collum jigs for dressing and 96 for rejigging. 1936 Ruston (Louisiana) Daily Leader 24 Nov. 4/2 The..amendments were blocked entirely at one session and passed at the next only after extensive rejigging. 1969 Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 1/1 Whitehall's structure will be considerably changed as a result of the Prime Minister's ‘rejigging’ of the machinery of government. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Apr. 32/3 Despite selling well at first, contemporaries tended to dismiss it as a hasty rejigging of Charles Jarvis′s 1742 edition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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