What's the difference between rebaptize and rename?
Rebaptize
Definition:
(v. t.) To baptize again or a second time.
Example Sentences:
(1) It turned to be prosperous under the administration of "San Juan de Dios" monks (1617), who rebaptized the Hospital with their name.
Rename
Definition:
(v. t.) To give a new name to.
Example Sentences:
(1) This factor, renamed interleukin-6 (IL-6), can be induced in fibroblasts by IL-1, while other cytokines are less active or inactive as inducers.
(2) Renaming them "nicotine sticks" would remind consumers of their true purpose, Cramer said.
(3) These enzymes have been renamed 17 beta-hydroxysteroid and 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid UDP-glucuronosyltransferase to reflect this specificity for important endogenous substrates.
(4) A gritty town battered by the decline of its lumber industry, it is mocked as hicksville by its rival, snootier neighbour, the university city Eugene, which Groening renamed Shelbyville.
(5) In 1971 the Mobutu regime renamed the province Shaba.
(6) After they renamed themselves IOU their break came when one member's mother brought them to the attention of Walsh, who was managing Boyzone , the Irish five-piece who signed to Polydor Records and conquered the charts after an A&R man at RCA passed up the chance to sign them.
(7) In 2011 it was renamed the Trump Entrepreneur Institute, but it has been dogged since by complaints from consumers and a few isolated civil lawsuits claiming it did not fulfill its advertised claims.
(8) Initially, Ibiza Rocks gigs took place at Bar M (now renamed Ibiza Rocks Bar), but in 2008 the promoters opened the Ibiza Rocks hotel, where the headline gigs take place every Tuesday.
(9) This study evaluated the ability of a rapid identification system for anaerobic bacteria, ATB 32A, now renamed RAPID ID 32A (API-bioMérieux UK Ltd., Basingstoke), to identify accurately 74 strains of the 'B.
(10) Kabila, who swiftly renamed the country, soon fell out with Rwanda and found himself under threat in turn.
(11) The Ritz hotel in Barcelona is renamed Hotel Gastronómico No 1 and serves as a workers’ canteen.
(12) He served with Ford on the National Geographic board before bringing him back to Discovery in September to run Discovery Times, which is being renamed as Investigation Discovery, and the Military Channel.
(13) From these observations, we suggest that this enzyme be renamed "6-pyruvoyl-H4-pterin synthase."
(14) But “most Germans could not even tell you that the country was once a colonial occupier in Africa,” says Tanzanian-born activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro , a member of the NGO Postkolonial, which is based in the area and campaigns for the renaming of its streets, as well as for official monuments to the victims of colonialism to be erected in German cities.
(15) Excision of the perianal skin and underlying venous plexus, leaving anterior and posterior skin bridges, is indicated in patients who have multiple recurrences of this painful condition, which should be renamed "perianal thrombosis."
(16) It could be that the ship, renamed Morning Glory, belongs to North Korea , but this is also doubtful.
(17) Senior ranks are shuffled, squads and teams are dissolved or renamed, policies and procedures are overhauled.
(18) Non-A, non-B hepatitis, recently renamed as hepatitis C virus (HCV), accounts for over 90% of hepatitis cases worldwide associated with blood transfusions.
(19) "While the court agreed to a small bit of modernisation in stating that the defence should be renamed honest comment … the court did not accept suggestions that the defence should be expanded to embrace facts which were not known to the defendant, or even in existence when he made his comment," said Gill Phillips, head of legal for the Guardian, which was one of the media organisations that intervened in the case.
(20) Because an entotympanic element is nev er formed, the previously called entotympanic chamber is here renamed the hypotympanum.