REARRANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rearrange mean? 

• REARRANGE (verb)
  The verb REARRANGE has 1 sense:

1. put into a new order or arrangement

  Familiarity information: REARRANGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REARRANGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rearrange    ... he / she / it rearranges   
Past simple: rearranged   
Past participle: rearranged   
-ing form: rearranging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into a new order or arrangement

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

rearrange the furniture in my room

Hypernyms (to "rearrange" is one way to...):

arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rearrange"):

recode (put into a different code; rearrange mentally)

reshuffle (reorganize and assign posts to different people)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

rearrangement (changing an arrangement)

 Context examples 

WINAC may rearrange the nucleosome array around the positive and negative VDREs, thereby facilitating the coregulatory complex's access for further transcription control.

(Gene Expression Regulation by Vitamin D Receptor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The T-cell receptor genes are not rearranged and it is not clear whether this disorder is reactive or neoplastic.

(Chronic Lymphoproliferative Disorder of NK-Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

One evening, after the child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A set of elements are rearranged or reindexed in various and different orders.

(Permutation, NCI Thesaurus)

The immunoglobulin genes are not rearranged.

(Plasmacytic Hyperplasia Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Every time he was thus awakened he drove back the wolves with flying brands, replenished the fire, and rearranged the pine-knot on his hand.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If I had not rearranged mine there would not be one tied in the whole kingdom now, and a great art would have been prematurely lost.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A disorder, wherein unstable chromosomes have a tendency to break and become rearranged, characterized by microcephaly, stunted growth, subnormal mental development, cafe-au-lait spots, and immunodeficiency.

(Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A white blood cell that, after being in contact with an antigen, rearranges its DNA to defend against that one specific type of antigen.

(Activated Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

Maud was already rearranging his pillow.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)