remasterv.
/ˌriːˈmɑːstə/, /ˌriːˈmastə/, U.S. /riˈmæstər/ 1. transitive. To master again (in various senses of the verb).
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1855 W. Robson Great Sieges Hist. 482 They..abandoned the field of battle to the Spaniards, who thus remastered the city without receiving a single wound.
1879 H. Van Laun tr. H. Taine Hist. Eng. Lit. vi. 459/1 Like his descendants, the pioneers of Australia and America, he must recreate and remaster one by one the inventions and acquisitions of human industry.
1948 Sci. Monthly June 506/1 We must remaster the machines that have mastered us.
1976 Times 13 Feb. 8 There was a chorus of subdued muttering as grown men tried to remaster the arithmetic of other days.
2008 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 5 Apr. 15 Hours of physiotherapy enabled him to remaster the skill of walking.
2. transitive. spec. To make a new master of (a record, etc.), typically in order to improve the quality; to issue (a recording, etc.) from a new master. See master n.1 10b.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > make recording [verb (transitive)] > make new master
remaster1956
1956 Western Folklore 15 304 It is unfortunate that the grant which made these reissues possible was not large enough to allow remastering the old 78's and thus make listening easier.
1967 Punch 25 Jan. 132/3 Both have been remastered, and only nostalgia entitles you to prefer the original 78s.
1970 Soviet Weekly 20 June 4/2 They include speeches which he recorded in the earliest years of Soviet power skilfully re~mastered and transferred to tape.
1985 Washington Post 5 Feb. e1/3 They digitally remastered the sound track, they did frame-by-frame color correction.
1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xxix. 224 Now that those old recordings have been remastered and stuck on a CD, a steam buff can scarcely tell the difference.
Derivatives
(In sense 2.) reˈmastered adj.
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1963 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 76 89 Carefully remastered dubs from 1927–28 Vocalion issues.
1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 10 Jan. 2 f The best companies..will also point out enhancements such as a..‘re-mastered’ (improved) soundtrack.
2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Sept. d18/4 A digitally remastered ‘Citizen Kane’..leads a half-dozen big releases.
reˈmastering n.
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1961 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 74 91 The re-mastering was certainly not up to commercial standards.
1975 Gramophone Aug. 322/1 They..will be most grateful to A. C. Griffith for the skill with which the transfer and re-mastering has been carried out.
2006 K. F. Lowe Words & Mus. Frank Zappa (2007) iii. 26 Ryko bought most of the Zappa catalog and gave them all deluxe packaging and excellent digital remastering.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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