RENEWAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renewal mean? 

• RENEWAL (noun)
  The noun RENEWAL has 3 senses:

1. the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation

2. the act of renewing

3. filling again by supplying what has been used up

  Familiarity information: RENEWAL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENEWAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

reclamation; rehabilitation; renewal

Hypernyms ("renewal" is a kind of...):

restoration (the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "renewal"):

re-afforestation; reforestation (the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting)

urban renewal (the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of renewing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("renewal" is a kind of...):

repeating; repetition (the act of doing or performing again)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "renewal"):

self-renewal (the act of renewing yourself (or itself))

Derivation:

renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Filling again by supplying what has been used up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

refilling; renewal; replacement; replenishment

Hypernyms ("renewal" is a kind of...):

filling (flow into something (as a container))

 Context examples 

How could I ever be foolish enough to expect a renewal of his love?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The choice between self-renewal and differentiation creates a fine balance between maintaining a pool of satellite cells for future repairs and making muscle cells for current tissue repair.

(Controlling Muscle Repair, NIH)

Blood-cell development progresses from a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC), which can undergo either self-renewal or differentiation into a multilineage committed progenitor cell: a common lymphoid progenitor (CLP) or a common myeloid progenitor (CMP).

(Hematopoietic Cell Lineage Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

It must not be: and yet the danger of a renewal of the acquaintance—!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Malignant hematopoietic cell originating in the clonal proliferation of myeloid or lymphoid precursor that undergoes an aberrant and poorly regulated process of organogenesis resulted in arrested maturation and cell capacity for unlimited self-renewal.

(Leukemic Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

It had been real business, relative to the renewal of a lease in which the welfare of a large and—he believed—industrious family was at stake.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The epidermis, which provides a protective barrier that undergoes a constant renewal, is a multi-layered tissue with the proliferating cells located in the basal layer.

(Keratinocyte Differentiation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

NR acts on the brain by normalizing levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+), a metabolite vital to cellular energy, stem cell self-renewal, resistance to neuronal stress and DNA repair.

(Compound prevents neurological damage, shows cognitive benefits in mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

Mr. Murdstone seemed afraid of a renewal of hostilities, and interposing began: Miss Trotwood!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But from such vain wishes she was forced to turn for comfort to the renewal of her confidence in Edward's affection, to the remembrance of every mark of regard in look or word which fell from him while at Barton, and above all to that flattering proof of it which he constantly wore round his finger.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)