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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remake
I.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mitchum has a cameo in the remake of "Cape Fear."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All are credited with faithfully carrying out what was proclaimed as the ultimate post-cold war management remake.
▪ But the remake, ranging from farce to a touch of sentiment, isn't at all bad.
▪ If you play a baddy, try to ensure that it's Vito Corleone in the next Godfather remake.
▪ They make remakes of old songs that had radio airplay, and were Top 10 on the charts.
▪ Walsh recognizes that fans will despise any attempt at a remake.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Mutiny on the Bounty" has been remade at least three times.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But if he is to fulfil his promise to remake the revolution he will have to steel himself to take bigger risks.
▪ Humanity is, of course, morally free to make and remake itself infinitely, but we do not do so.
▪ She could remake all the garments.
▪ The odious pair are simultaneously cajoling and menacing: Ferdinand must remake himself in their image, or else.
▪ There she hoped to remake her life through music.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remake

Remake \Re*make"\ (r?-m?k"), v. t. To make anew.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
remake

1630s, from re- "back, again" + make (v.). Related: Remade; remaking. As a noun, of movies, from 1936.

Wiktionary
remake

n. 1 A new version of something. 2 A new, especially updated, version of a film, video game, etc. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make again. 2 (context transitive video games English) To make an enhanced remake of (a computer game or video game).

WordNet
remake
  1. n. creation that is created again or anew; "it is a remake of an old film" [syn: remaking]

  2. v. make new; "She is remaking her image" [syn: refashion, redo, make over]

  3. [also: remade]

Wikipedia
Remake

A remake is a film or television series that is based on an earlier work and tells the same story.

Remake (novel)

Remake is a 1995 science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996.

The book displays a dystopic near future, when computer animation and sampling have reduced the movie industry to software manipulation.

Remake (2003 film)

Remake is a 2003 Bosnian film that was made in Turkish-French co-production of Bosnian director Dino Mustafić. Produced by Enes Cviko and famous BAFTA Award-winning producer and actress Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre, producer of the film which won a Golden Globe and was nominated for two Oscars. The film stars Ermin Bravo, Aleksandar Seksan, Ermin Sijamija, Dejan Aćimović, Lucija Šerbedžija, Francois Berleand and Evelyne Bouix and was written by famous multiple award-winning Bosnian writer and screenwriter Zlatko Topčić and inspired by a true story.

Remake follows father Ahmed and son Tarik Karaga during World War II and the Siege of Sarajevo.

The film premiered at prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam on 23 January 2003, where it was the most watched movie, and was elected one of the five best films of the festival. It was released to cinemas throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina on 22 February 2003.

Remake (disambiguation)

A remake is a film or television series based on an earlier produced work.

Remake may also refer to:

  • Remake (2003 film), a Bosnian film directed by Dino Mustafić
  • Remake (novel), a 1995 science fiction novel by Connie Willis
  • Remake, a type of computing clone that recreates old or discontinued products
    • Home computer remake, a recreation of older home computer hardware
    • Video game remake, a video game closely adapted from an earlier title

Usage examples of "remake".

I-A, who is not only killed but destroyed, yet remakes himself, and who is consequently sent to Amel and put through the god-making ordeal.

He would use the sublime and powerful cetic arts to continue the fiery work of remaking himself.

There were no magisters, Isaac remembered, no courts or punishment factories, no quarries and dumps to pack with Remade, no militia or politicians.

But long ago, Ephemera had harnessed itself to the human heart, and it constantly made and remade itself in response to those hearts.

They overthrew Golgotha, toppled Lionstone from the Iron Throne, and remade the Empire!

They are the cactus-men, the freeanole humans, one two scarab-head khepri, camp followers and drifters, a flock of the wyrmen low in the sky staring with the enthusiasm of dogs, stranger races, renegade llorgiss and a mute hotchi, and hundreds and hundreds of the Remade, in every shape of flesh.

Old women, young, men, human cactus khepri hotchi vodyanoi and Remade, even Remade.

Brianna had remade it for him, stitching in loops of leather that presented his pistols, hilt up, ready to be seized in an emergency, and a clever arrangement of compartments that held handy his shot pouch, powder horn, a spare knife, a coil of fishing line, a roll of twine for a snare, a hussif with pins, needles, and thread, a packet of food, a bottle of beer, and a neatly rolled clean shirt.

They buried their own dead where they could, except for one, a Remade woman famous for mediating during The Idiocy, long before.

This is being done with roughnecks, cactus-men, and assorted other wage slaves, but also with an abundant supply of Remade slave labor confined in pens when they are not working, a kind of ultimate bottomline lumpenproletariat, feared, despised, and looked down upon by the humans and aliens who are at least getting paid.

They remade me into the god of mateship, freedom, hard work and good times.

There were more than a score, tiny figures in grey, and they had dogs, and something expressing the smoke: an ironclad tower as tall as the tardy pulled by Remade horses.

And maybe he had succeededcould anyone be sure it was a militia bullet that had ended the Remade captive?

Passing the shops and pubs of Syriac he saw that he was seen, and knew that some who glanced at himthe woman here, the vodyanoi, the man or cactus-man, even the Remade therewere with the Caucus.

Made strange by their context, overthrowing rules: the crowds who would spit on the Remade would have sworn themselves to Half-a-Prayer.