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REARRANGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into a new order or arrangement

Example:

rearrange the furniture in my room

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

M1 is a rearranged long arm and centromere of chromosome 1 and the long arm of chromosome 3.

(HeLa, NCI Thesaurus)

Out of this hiding-place he drew that little cylinder of paper, pushed down the board, rearranged the carpet, blew out the candles, and walked straight into my arms as I stood waiting for him outside the window.

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

Cabozantinib strongly binds to and inhibits several RTKs, which are often overexpressed in a variety of cancer cell types, including hepatocyte growth factor receptor (MET), RET (rearranged during transfection), vascular endothelial growth factor receptor types 1 (VEGFR-1), 2 (VEGFR-2), and 3 (VEGFR-3), mast/stem cell growth factor (KIT), FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT-3), TIE-2 (TEK tyrosine kinase, endothelial), tropomyosin-related kinase B (TRKB) and AXL.

(Cabozantinib, NCI Thesaurus)

Integrins facilitate the adhesion of stimulated endothelial cells to the extracellular matrix (ECM); trigger the secretion of ECM-rearranging proteases; and propagate signaling events that promote the survival and differentiation of cells in newly formed vasculature.

(Intetumumab, NCI Thesaurus)

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to show that, multiple eruptions from a supermassive black hole over 50 million years have rearranged the cosmic landscape at the center of a group of galaxies.

(Chandra Finds Evidence for Serial Black Hole Eruptions, NASA)

This rearranging of the evolutionary lineage of a single species may seem like a small adjustment but identifying changes in numerous extinct mammals and humans could lead to massive shifts in our understanding of the way the world has evolved.

(‘Game-changing’ research could solve evolution mysteries, University of Cambridge)

It took them half the night to pitch a slovenly camp, and half the morning to break that camp and get the sled loaded in fashion so slovenly that for the rest of the day they were occupied in stopping and rearranging the load.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his data were insufficient.

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