re-arrange

See also: rearrange, réarrangé, and réarrange

English

Verb

re-arrange (third-person singular simple present re-arranges, present participle re-arranging, simple past and past participle re-arranged)

1. Alternative form of rearrange.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 178–179:

     With such matters to ponder over, and arrange, and re-arrange, Edmund could not on his own account think very much of the evening, which the rest of the family were looking forward to with a more equal degree of strong interest.

   • 1848 April – 1849 October, E[dward] Bulwer-Lytton, chapter I, in The Caxtons: A Family Picture, volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1849, →OCLC, part IX, page 88:

     Now, if in a stage coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re-arrange their "comforters," feel indignantly a sensible loss of caloric—the intruder has at least made a sensation.

   • 1920 December, Arthur Stringer, “A Sense of Humor: A Christmas Story”, in Canadian Home Journal, volume 17, number 8, Toronto, Ont.: Home Journal Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 8, columns 2–3:

     He went back to his play like an opium-smoker back to his drug. He revised and re-arranged and revamped. He closed his eyes, valiantly, and cut away whole act-ends, at one grim stroke, like a surgeon operating on his own flesh and blood.

   • 1999, Jesus Castagnetto, Professional PHP Programming, page 162:

     The shuffle() function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly.

   • 2007 November 4, Edward Helmore, New York Times‎^[1]:

     Re-Arranging the Furniture