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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rework
verb
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▪ Barr's schema was provisional, and although he did later rework the plan he made no major revisions.
▪ Doing so enables us to rework these things and possess them.
▪ Nothing fine could be finished without reworking, he told them.
▪ The reworking of another artist's work-by appropriation or erasure-has been identified as a postmodern preoccupation.
▪ The calm presence of an empathetic parent allows a child to rework some of these images on her own.
▪ The play, very moral in tone throughout, is a reworking of the theme of the return of the prodigal son.
▪ The structure itself had changed little since 1976, though there was considerable reworking and transport of fine sediment by earthworms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rework

1842, from re- + work (v.). Related: Reworked; reworking.

Wiktionary
rework

n. 1 The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding. 2 (context in particular food manufacturing English) Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food. 3 Something redone, corrected or rebuilt. 4 Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed. 5 (context countable English) An instance of reworking. vb. To redo, correct, or rebuild.

WordNet
rework

v. use again in altered form; "retread an old plot" [syn: make over, retread]

Wikipedia
Rework (electronics)

thumb|upright=1.5|220px|Electronic assembly (PCBA) Rework (or re-work) is the term for the refinishing operation or repair of an electronic printed circuit board (PCB) assembly, usually involving desoldering and re- soldering of surface-mounted electronic components (SMD). Mass processing techniques are not applicable to single device repair or replacement, and specialized manual techniques by expert personnel using appropriate equipment are required to replace defective components; area array packages such as ball grid array (BGA) devices particularly require expertise and appropriate tools. A hot air gun or hot air station is used to heat devices and melt solder, and specialised tools are used to pick up and position often tiny components.

A rework station is a place to do this work—the tools and supplies for this work, typically on a workbench.

Rework

Rework can refer to:

  • Technology:
    • Rework (electronics), the process of removing a component from a printed circuit board and then re-soldering it back on
    • Rework, the step in the Software inspection process during software development when discovered defects are corrected
      • Rework, a step in the Fagan inspection process during software development
  • Science:
    • Reworked fossil, a fossil that lies in another stratum than the one they were originally deposited in
  • Culture:
    • ReWorked, a remix album by RuPaul
    • REWORK (book), a book by 37signals
    • Body Rework, a remix album by EBM band Nitzer Ebb

Usage examples of "rework".

The development of human language must therefore involve an essentially new brain system and not merely a reworking of the machinery for limbic cries and calls.

Small labor would it be to add thole pins along the gunwales, rework the footings for quick stepping or unstepping of the mast, then lighten them a bit to give more speed and ease of handling.

Illa knew, spread for acres, holding the soil and secreting microfauna to defend against native parasites and rework the local minerals into compatible nutrients.

He reworked stairways so that they never rose but only ran in recursive circles or ascended to the foundations or descended to the heavens.

DeFanti had reworked the blimp scheme, trying to commercialize it, to repurpose satellite communications, just for local neighborhoods.

Given what a mess things are, Tony Shaheen ought to give me at least until Monday or Tuesday to rework my case.

Among the many obvious changes were longer wings shaped in a modified delta, forward winglets near the fuselage that helped maneuverability, and a reworked cockpit area.

One of my pieces has been reworked by a real master and it will shoot into two inches with good ammunition when I do my part, yet it functions better than any other autopistol I own.

Rework is never quite the same as new, relationships being no different from engines in that regard.

It could be Eduardo de Santos, who works as head cutter for Hall Jewelry International and, if street gossip is true, has a nice little sideline reworking stolen gems passed to him by his extended family.

The blacksmiths, the sailmakers, the carpenters, the water-tenders, to a degree the storekeepers, functioned as before, tending to the fabric of the ship, renewing, replacing, reworking.

Taylor was a pale, almost transparent woman of Canadian background, who, until that startling discovery, had lived in a kind of dreamy reverie filled with semiclassical music and the endlessly reworked verses to which she devoted two hours every afternoon and never allowed anyone to read.

It was part of her, so strongly that it had struggled to break free of the Wards, so powerful that Gorynel Desse had reWorked her Wards twice.

Meetings with various Druids to rework studies that members of the order would undertake.

The architects had promptly fed them to the construction jobbers so the raw materials could be reworked into a place Humans would be comfortable with.