Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To number again or in a different order.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To count or number again; affix a new number to, as a house.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To number again, to assign new numbers to

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Examples

  • · pattrstorage: fixed memory access bug during 'renumber' and 'remove'

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

  • A paramedic, borough council member and emergency services board member in a rural county, he led successful drive to renumber street addresses to improve emergency response, got an external defibrillator funded and installed at local church for community use and gave classes on using it and CPR; honor society president; nursing program curriculum committee member and student representative.

    All-USA Community College Academic Team 2007

  • I didn't want to retype and renumber and everything, so I wrote page 39 to fit.

    The Write Stuff 2009

  • Apart from the religious/superstitious objection to the numbering, it does make sense to renumber the route.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Things I Didn’t Know 2009

  • Certainly we have had other presidents with disabilities like the one with Alzheimer's, the one with a sex disorder and now the one who is so cognitively impaired he, "can't renumber," if he did coke, but said he thinks he, "would renumber," if he had done any drive bye shootings.

    Chris Nelson: Weekly Roundup, Readers Drowning in the Mud of McCain's Campaign 2008

  • I deleted something that might be vaguely offensive, then forgot to renumber!

    southbound 2005

  • They didn't renumber the damned thing and they went back to X-Men later, so that's what I call it, consarnit!

    Your favorite X-Men Era! | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007

  • I'd then renumber at each level so that if acquisition of a person's second language began at 16, then that would be 1t so that would be:

    languagehat.com: NATIVE SPEAKER. 2004

  • Create a ZIP code system in Iraq, renumber the Iraqi telephone system, restore marshlands, $10,000 per student for business refresher courses, just for one month.

    CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2003 2003

  • Friday as part of a project to renumber and map the Thaba Nchu area.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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