(v. t.) To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war.
(v. t.) To fit out or supply a second time.
(v. i.) To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Controversy exists as to whether patients who are asymptomatic, long term PMMA contact lens wearers demonstrating an acceptable clinical ocular response should be routinely refit into hard gas permeable lenses.
(2) The company said it expected to refit 215 shops by the end of the year, around 12% of its entire estate of 1,700 bakeries.
(3) What you can do is buy in a different kind of capability, possibly from the Americans, and refitting other airframes with some of the technology that would have been inside Nimrod.
(4) The management of soft contact lens related GPC has included refitting with hard lenses, specifically the newer rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses.
(5) In the early 1990s, the then defence secretary and Edinburgh Pentlands MP Malcolm Rifkind sacrificed thousands of jobs at the nearby Rosyth dockyard by giving the multi-billion pound Trident nuclear submarine refitting contract to Devonport dockyard in Plymouth, Saddler said.
(6) China is refitting a former Soviet aircraft carrier, the Variag, and is building several carriers itself.its own.
(7) Refitting these subjects with an experimental contact lens which caused a 6% increase in corneal thickness did not further alter the corneal sensitivity.
(8) But you sense it's a relief to be allowed to obsess about the interesting things, about Yeats and Harold Bloom's take on Hamlet, instead of management meetings, fundraising and toilet refits.
(9) The data suggest that with concerted effort most keratoconus patients may be successfully refitted despite initial contact lens failure.
(10) Alternating cycles of refitting and refinement have resulted in a model structure with an R-factor of 18.7% for 27,526 reflections from 7.5 to 1.7 A resolution (96% of the data).
(11) The women retire because owners don’t want them in the interior of a boat after a certain age – late 30s and you’re off.” The majority of owners buy superyachts secondhand via brokers and refit them to their tastes.
(12) Whitworth Gallery Manchester After a £15m refit and extension, the Whitworth reopens with multiple exhibitions and displays, including key works and new commissions by Cornelia Parker, the beautiful watercolours of Thomas Schütte, and a 45-metre-long gunpowder drawing by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (who devised the unforgettable fireworks for the Beijing Olympics), originally conceived for the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
(13) Affected customers will be contacted about visiting a mechanic to have their cars refitted.
(14) West Ham face compensation risk over state aid for Olympic Stadium refit Read more It is, in short, all a long way from Green Street.
(15) As well as opening new UK stores, the chocolate retailer will relocate some of its existing shops to larger, more prime sites, as well as refitting some stores.
(16) A second building for secondary students is being refitted in what used to be Wembley town hall.
(17) Volkswagen Group UK is committed to supporting its customers and its retailers through the coming weeks.” VW has set aside €6.5bn (£4.8bn) to cover the cost of the crisis, so motorists will not have to pay for the refit.
(18) No significant relationship between weight change and diaphragm size change was found, which suggests that refitting the vaginal diaphragm after weight loss or gain is unnecessary.
(19) All patients were successfully refitted with daily-wear rigid or thin, hydrogel contact lenses following simple clinical techniques.
(20) A Russian ship carrying attack helicopters that was prevented from sailing to Syria has been refitted with a Russian flag, rousing suspicions it is preparing for a second attempt.
Refut
Definition:
(n.) Refuge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The operational meaning of all the resulting theorems is that when any of them appear to be refuted experimentally, the presence of more than one parallel transport pathway (that is, of membrane heterogeneity transverse to the direction of transport) can be inferred and analyzed.
(2) The results presented refute arguments that these enzymes proceed by a concerted mechansim and support the intermediacy of aminoacyladenylates.
(3) Theories of urea formation during allantoin degradation in Glycine max have been recently refuted.
(4) A mitochondriogenic mechanism of calcification could not be confirmed nor refuted by this study.
(5) The probability that the initial situation is correct--the proband and the cohabitant's six children are all legitimate-is "practically refuted": W = 0.03%.
(6) The IFS says similar declines emerge if you set the figure as low as 40% of median income – utterly refuting Nick Clegg's toxic line dismissing the threshold as just "poverty plus a pound" .
(7) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
(8) The need for neighboring states to use their data to confirm or refute findings is stressed.
(9) Hume, whose grantmaking credentials include leading a £500m cancer and palliative care grant programme for the Big Lottery Fund, refutes the notion that hospices will lose out.
(10) Additional studies are highly desirable to confirm or refute these findings, which, if valid, mean increasing lung cancer hazards caused by a decrease in ventilation in future energy saving unless special measures are undertaken to reduce radon daughters in dwellings.
(11) This did not happen and, on the evidence presented in this paper, the Fry theory of the pathogenesis of the deviated nasal septum is refuted.
(12) Marshall refuted claims CSIRO was moving away from public good scientific research , labelling it disturbing and untrue.
(13) This explanation was refuted, as all thymic subpopulations were found to express CD1, albeit with differences in antigen density, whereas all extrathymic subpopulations lack CD1.
(14) Location of En at the MN locus would not, however, refute the theory that Wra and Wrb cannot function in the absence of En.
(15) The hypothesis that the function of recA gene is to convert the unidirectionally replicating machinery in the free state to the bidirectionally replicating one in the integrated state is refuted accordingly.
(16) Observation refutes Freud's often quoted statement that masturbation is further removed from the nature of women than of men.
(17) Use of such data led to a false impression of drug efficacy, an impression later refuted when proper control studies demonstrated that the range of disease was much greater than had been previously supposed.
(18) Results refute the assertion that people who stutter are more anxious or depressed than those who do not.
(19) The claim made by astrologers that people can be characterized according to their sign of the zodiac (sagitarius, taurus, cancer, scorpion) must be refuted.
(20) Predictions from the chiasma map can be confirmed or refuted only by genetic evidence for which the estimates of this paper serve as initial values to begin maximum likelihood iteration.