(v. t.) To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, a new dosage concepts has been introduced on the basis of the effective dose on the lines of the recommendations by the IRCP; as a result, the definitions of radiation protection areas and of dosage limit values had to be revised and reworded.
(2) There were signs on Wednesday night that the Scottish government was shifting ground by agreeing to allow the commission to independently try out the question on voters, suggesting it could be reworded to make it more neutral.
(3) Support was provided for rewording burnout questions from the human services scales for private sector research.
(4) This motto--which is merely a rewording of the command to "love thy neighbor as thyself"--is compatible with man's natural structure, and although it is based on altruistic egoism, it could hardly be attacked as unethical.
(5) The remaining 36 young offenders were given at retest a version of the SADD reworded to eradicate difficult words and ambiguous items.
(6) Based upon several TTS experiments showing that TTS reaches an asymptote after about 8 h of exposure, the third CHABA postulate can be reworded to state the hypothesis that ATS produced by sound of fixed level and spectrum represents an upper bound on PTS produced by that sound regardless of the exposure duration or the number of times exposed.
(7) In 1990, the statement was superseded by a second "Statement on Abortion," which essentially reworded the 1971 statement with no substantive change.
(8) The original questionnaire by Schwenk et al was administered to one half of the sample of patients, while the other half completed a reworded questionnaire asking what they "want" in the area of psychosocial help, as opposed to what they think their family physician "would" do (the original wording).
(9) But such a rule puts the scientists in a difficult position, and Santer had the unenviable job of rewording his chapter to reflect the wording of the political summary.
(10) According to this rule, Psalms (120:5), Isaiah (6:5), Jeremiah (4:31), and Ophelia should have cried out, "Woe is I," and the cartoon possum Pogo should have reworded his famous declaration as "We have met the enemy, and he is we."
(11) • This article was amended on 1 January 2013, rewording a previously ambiguous sentence that could have been taken to imply that rickets and scurvy were communicable diseases.
(12) This sentence has now been reworded to reflect the author's original intent.
(13) Halpern’s team reworded the email sent to all candidates that congratulated them on passing the previous stage to include a request for them to “take some time to think about why you want to be a police constable” before moving on to the next test.
(14) Most of the changes applied by the nudge unit are tiny: a text message, rewording a letter, a personalised email.
(15) They tested some of the same questions throughout, which is important because merely rewording a question – even when describing the same policy – can cause major differences in results.
(16) But, to reword the question, would such a legislation automatically result in therapeutic benefits?
(17) It is suggested that a clearer definition of committal criteria and a rewording of the medical certificate may aid physicians in completing commitment documentation.
(18) Thus, the SADD is shown to be reliable over time and the reworded SADD is a satisfactory alternative to the original SADD with this population.
(19) It also reworded its position on the plans, saying it would consult on the "best" counselling options for women but that the outcome was not a foregone conclusion.
(20) But a group of up to 30 Conservative MPs are threatening to back a reworded amendment to the immigration bill to allow more to reach the UK in another vote next Monday.
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Example Sentences:
(1) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(2) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
(3) Previously a cover-up and reworking of a tattoo beneath, when she was performing across the UK with Girls Aloud in February , you could see the bold work in progress poking above her backless stage costumes.
(4) And then there's a long, long process where you can keep refining and reworking.
(5) If the large-scale, comprehensive abstracting and indexing services were based on enumerative classifications with assignment of documents to logical hierarchical categories at the time of initial indexing, then many of the specialized information centers (50) and the 1300 abstracting and indexing services (3) would be unnecessary, and much of the reindexing and reprocessing of documents, the repackaging and reworking of abstracts and index data, and the resulting overlap and duplication characteristic of current information processing could be terminated.
(6) This paper focuses on the choice of a sexual partner and pregnancy issues as symptoms of reworking established conflicts around self-valuation and abandonment by sibling and grieving parents.
(7) Armitage's stage version, commissioned for the in-the-round Royal Exchange in Manchester, a space that can encompass both the intimate and the epic, reworks The Iliad , adding an ending Homer never wrote.
(8) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
(9) The proposed rework was a “seriously retrograde step” – “a colossal mistake, and a dangerous one.” The opposition leader validated arguments Jewish groups, including the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, have raised this past week against the proposed RDA changes.
(10) Harry Moran's Pizzabot, a reworking of Space Invaders, also drove down a release from the Call of Duty series when it debuted on the chart, leading to the Irish boy being dubbed the youngest successful app developer in the world.
(11) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends (£2.99) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends is a reworking of Eric Carle’s classic book and illustrations, in the form of a digital “pop-up app” modelled after printed pop-up books.
(12) This "first-cut" ration can then be reworked in the spreadsheet mode to meet the needs of the individual farm based on other biologic and management considerations.
(13) Today, a fully restored, boldly extended and slightly reworked St Pancras proves that we can have our boiled beef and our oil-drizzled fettuccine and eat it.
(14) Other contributors include Bat For Lashes, Tove Lo and Chvrches, while Kanye “reworks” Flicker.
(15) He thinks it's complicated – though in the case of Shylock , his reworking of the Merchant of Venice , he is prepared to be specific.
(16) In optimal circumstances, the identifications out of which the child's character is built become reworked and modified so that it becomes increasingly unique and independent of its sources in others.
(17) It also recommended a reworking of proportionality tests.
(18) Parliament rises on Thursday, with only two further sitting weeks scheduled before the summer break, providing limited time for the multinational bill to be reworked before 1 January.
(19) We also seem to be heading increasingly towards a directors’ theatre, where the ability to rework standard classics takes precedence over new writing: look at the fervid excitement created by current productions of The Crucible and A Streetcar Named Desire .
(20) There was fine work from the Dardenne brothers – their Le Gamin au Vélo was a modern reworking of Oliver Twist and Bicycle Thieves .