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rename

verb
/ɹiːˈneɪm/

Etymology

From re- + name.

  1. inherited from *h₁nómn̥✻ — “name”
  2. inherited from *namô✻ — “name”
  3. inherited from *namō✻
  4. inherited from nama
  5. inherited from name
  6. formed as rename — “re- + name”

Definitions

  1. To give a new name to.

    • However, in 1844, saner counsels prevailed, and Edgeley became the principal station—the directors eating their words once more by retaining the older station, which was renamed Heaton Norris.
    • […] And then, finally, we got to Vietnam. Given the dishonesty surrounding that war, I guess it's not surprising that, at the time, the very same condition was renamed post-traumatic stress disorder.

  2. An instance of renaming.

    • warning: detected divergent renames of foo to: bar quux

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rename. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA