redesign

«redesign» in Mova's school dictionary: to design it again, changing its look, shape or the way… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (redesign, redesigns, redesigned, redesigning); noun (a redesign, redesigns)

meaning for a pupil

1) To redesign something is to design it again, changing its look, shape or the way it works to make it better. tree →

2) A redesign is the new design or the act of changing it. tree →

sense in the lessons

In design and technology lessons, pupils test a model, find problems and redesign it: test, improve, test again. In everyday life, apps, websites, logos, playgrounds and coins get redesigns. Scientists and engineers redesign machines after a failure.

examples

• Our paper bridge broke, so we redesigned it with more triangles. tree →
• The school is going to redesign the playground. tree →
• The app had a redesign and now the buttons are bigger. tree →
• She redesigned her poster to make the title clearer. tree →
• The car was redesigned to be safer. tree →
• After testing, we redesigned the boat so it would float. tree →
• The website's redesign made it easier to use. tree →

note

No hyphen: redesign. Say "ree-di-ZINE"; the g is silent. Re- means again. Both a verb and a countable noun.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «redesign» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.