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rearrangere‧ar‧range /ˌriːəˈreɪndʒ/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLErearrange |
Present | I, you, we, they | rearrange | | he, she, it | rearranges | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | rearranged | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have rearranged | | he, she, it | has rearranged | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had rearranged | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will rearrange | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have rearranged |
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Present | I | am rearranging | | he, she, it | is rearranging | | you, we, they | are rearranging | Past | I, he, she, it | was rearranging | | you, we, they | were rearranging | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been rearranging | | he, she, it | has been rearranging | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been rearranging | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be rearranging | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been rearranging |
- "This room looks different. Have you painted it?" "No, I just rearranged the furniture."
- Can we rearrange your appointment for next Thursday?
- This program allows you to create and rearrange images on-screen with the click of a mouse button.
- We'll have to rearrange all the furniture once they deliver the new sofa.
- For a large cichlid they must be classed as unaggressive and certainly they do not try to rearrange their surroundings.
- Having obtained this, he set to work to enclose the parish and to rearrange its landscape.
- He rearranged the brambles, got back on his bike, and pedalled round to the mill yard.
- Here you can rearrange the playing order of the slides and remove unwanted ones.
- I think you might could rearrange that many people.
- If you rearrange your time, you rearrange your priorities.
- Te Kanawa is not alone in rearranging her priorities.
to arrange a group of things or people► arrange to put a group of things or people in a particular order or position: arrange somebody/something: · Why don't you arrange the kids and I'll take their picture.· Coyle arranged the cushions and sat down on the sofa.arrange something in pairs/rows/groups etc: · The desks were arranged in pairs.arrange something/somebody in a circle: · Can you arrange yourselves in a circle so that everyone can see me?arrange something alphabetically (=according to the letters of the alphabet): · The books are arranged alphabetically, according to author.arrange something in order of height/importance etc: · If you have a lot of things to do, just make a list and arrange them in order of importance. ► organize also organise British to arrange in order information, ideas etc according to a system, so that they will be more effective or easier to use: · Organize your notes very carefully before giving a speech.· You might find that writing an outline will help you to organize your thoughts.organize something into piles/groups etc: · The book is organized into three sections. ► set out to arrange a group of things on the floor, on a table, on a shelf etc for people to use, take, or look at: set out something: · If we set out the chairs now, they'll be ready for tonight's meeting.set something out: · A waiter brought drinks and sandwiches, and set them out on a low table beside the pool. ► be laid out if a town, building etc is laid out in a particular way, it is arranged in that way according to a particular plan: · I like the way your new office is laid out.be laid out according to: · Kyoto is laid out according to a grid system. ► line up to arrange people or things in a line: line up somebody/something: · "Line up your men," said the police inspector.line somebody/something etc up: · He lined the dolls up from tallest to shortest. ► order to arrange a group of things so that one comes after the other in a particular order: · The psychology books are ordered according to title, not according to author. ► put something in order to arrange things so that they are in the correct order: · He cleaned his desk and put his papers in order before locking up the office.put something in alphabetical/numerical order: · We need to put all the names in alphabetical order. ► rearrange to arrange a group of things in a different way from before: · "This room looks different. Have you painted it?" "No, I just rearranged the furniture."· This program allows you to create and rearrange images on-screen with the click of a mouse button. NOUN► furniture· But most looked like dolls' houses, Léonie thought, where the women played at rearranging the clean furniture.· It is not casual rethinking, not a simple rearranging of furniture.· Mum jumped up straight away and began rearranging the furniture which had been upset in the commotion. 1to change the position or order of things: She set about rearranging the furniture in the living room.2to change the time of a meeting etc: My secretary will phone to rearrange the appointment.3be rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic to be making small and useless changes when something very bad is about to happen and there is little chance of preventing it: These attempts to reduce climate change just amount to rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.—rearrangement noun [countable, uncountable] |