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reinvent

ˌriɪnˈvɛnt
WordNet
  1. (v) reinvent
    create anew and make over "He reinvented African music for American listeners"
  2. (v) reinvent
    bring back into existence "The candidate reinvented the concept of national health care so that he would get elected"
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. reinvent
    To devise or create anew, independently and without knowledge of a previous invention.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Reinvent
    rē-in-vent′ to create anew or independently
Idioms

Reinvent the wheel - If someone reinvents the wheel, they waste their time doing something that has already been done by other people, when they could be doing something more worthwhile.

Usage in the news

Jason McCullar reinvents shrimp remoulade, the classic New Orleans cocktail-party dish. foodandwine.com

Courtesy of Food & Wine 's Reinventing the Classics. oprah.com

We simply need to do better by being smarter and not wasting efforts by trying to reinvent the wheel. officer.com

Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo and Frank Nicholson reinvent the language of elegance for the Four Seasons Dublin. interiordesign.net

Reinventing themselves with guns and black trench coats, they sought revenge. nytimes.com

A Newark School Prepares to Reinvent Itself, Again. nyc.org

No reinvention when none is needed. newsobserver.com

Ryvita appointed Wild Card to develop a six-month consumer campaign to reinvent its crispbread range, giving it a more modern, foodie image. prweek.com

Honda has reinvented the modern pickup truck. motortrend.com

Meredith Williams 'doesn't like to reinvent the wheel'. pionline.com

Linda reinvents herself with 'Torch and Sass '. mysanantonio.com

IPhone App ' Scarab ' Reinvents the Literary Journal. ired.com

Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food. businessweek.com

The filmmakers behind James Bond invented -- and then reinvented -- the spy movie. goerie.com

Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page reinvented search, e-mail and mapping, shattering earnings estimates and getting themselves very, very rich. cioinsight.com

Usage in scientific papers

So much for reinventing what’s already known.
Formal Considerations about Fracture: Nucleation and Growth

We point out that recent models of wealth condensation which draw their inspiration from molecular dynamics have, in fact, reinvented a process introduced quite some time ago by Angle (1986) in the sociological literature.
Emergent Statistical Wealth Distributions in Simple Monetary Exchange Models: A Critical Review

Hammer, Reinventing College Physics for Biologists: Explicating an Epistemological Curriculum , Am. J.
The role of context and culture in teaching physics: The implication of disciplinary differences

They are fully documented, and also come with “batteries included”–for instance, users do not have to reinvent vectors, arrays, reductions or prefix sums.
High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods by GPU Metaprogramming

Reinventing undergraduate education: A blueprint for America’s research universities.
Lessons From the Physics-Education Reform Effort

Usage in literature

But it's gone, it's gone, and there's no time to reinvent it now. "The War in the Air" by Herbert George Wells

She could not recover them; she could not even reinvent them. "The Research Magnificent" by H. G. Wells

When I told him that I was going to live there someday, he asked me if that would mean that I was done reinventing myself. "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" by Cory Doctorow

Electric lights had not at that period been reinvented. "The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8" by Ambrose Bierce

Or did he reinvent it for himself, forgetting that it had already served? "Inquiries and Opinions" by Brander Matthews

I wanted to reinvent some wheels. "Makers" by Cory Doctorow

These were afterwards lost and were reinvented probably several times. "Education: How Old The New" by James J. Walsh

These works contain descriptions of many machines subsequently reinvented and claimed as new by other mechanics. "A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine" by Robert H. Thurston

The process of making cast steel was reinvented in England by Benjamin Huntsman of Attercliff, near Sheffield, about 1740. "Inventions in the Century" by William Henry Doolittle