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/ˈɹiːfɪt/
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/ɹiːˈfɪt/
Substantivo
The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.
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The ship required a refit before setting out again.
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At the start, the team removed the sides and the ceiling panels, alongside the seats. They then stripped out the cabling that runs through the carriage. Once that was done, the carriage would be ready for the refit.
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To fit again; to put back into its place.
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1677, Philip Meadows, A Narrative of the Principal Actions Occurring in the Wars Betwixt Sueden and Denmark, London: A.C. and H. Brome, pp. 122-123, The truth is they made no great scruple, at least for that one time, to come under the Stern of their Neighbouring Common-wealth, thereby to have better leisure to recollect and refit the scattered planks and pieces of their own broken Republic.
[…] I have seen a Man ride with both his feet upon the Saddle, take off his Saddle, and at his return take it up again, refit, and remount it, riding all the while full speed;
Michelangelo took a group outside and in full view of the papal troops refitted the fallen, shattered stone into the walls.
[…] for the next half-hour I looked on, fascinated, while his large soft hands took apart the entire pump and refitted the parts.
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37424 had been noted at Barrow Hill with its air horns moved onto the nose (in front of the cab windows) to allow it to work on certain routes where '37s' with roof-mounted horns are barred, such as to Stranraer. However, the horns have now been refitted to their normal position, with the bolts of the alternative positioning still fitted.
To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.
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to refit a garment; to refit ships of war
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But these [aqueducts] by the sloth and carelesness of the Greeks and Turks falling to decay and rendred useless, were restored and refitted by the Emperor Suleiman, who was so intent upon this great work, that he said he would go on with it, although the laying every stone stood him in a purse of money […]
[…] all the three theatres have been repeatedly altered, and refitted, and enlarged, to make them capacious of the crowds, that nightly flock to them;
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The allied fleet, having been speedily refitted at Portsmouth, stood out again to sea.
His girth required Donal Noye to take apart a mail hauberk and refit it with leather panels at the sides.
From there, teams would work for two days refitting the carriages and the cabs, before moving to pre-testing and quality control. The units were then ready to re-enter service.
To fit out or supply again (with something).
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For what can be more comfortable then to be asserted from the power of the grave, and rescued from death and mortality, to have our Soul refitted with Organs, and all the bodily powers awakened again so as to lose nothing by our fall;
1697, John Dryden (translator), Virgil’s Aeneis, Book 1, lines 776-777, in The Works of Virgil, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 224, Permit our Ships a Shelter on your Shoars, Refitted from your Woods with Planks and Oars;
To prepare a vessel for use again (e.g. by replenishing depleted supplies or doing maintenance or repair work); (of a vessel) to be prepared for use again.
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1669, uncredited translator, Memoires of Henry, D. of Guise, London: Henry Herringman, Book 5, p. 499, […] I discovered two Gallies making towards Nicita, whom I saluted with two Cannons, which I levelled and fired my self, so happily, that one of them being shot through between wind and water, was fain to go off to refit, and the other had three or four slaves killed.
As soon as we were out of danger, we came to anchor and refitted;
A little to leeward of this was a small cluster of islands, where we were going to refit, abounding with delicious fruits […]
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“She’s a cargo ship, isn’t she?” she asked. “Goods, and that?” I nodded. “She hasn’t got anything in her now. She’s just come up from Falmouth in ballast. She’s come in to refit.”
The Leinster has been in use as a hospital ship and a transport, but is now released and is refitting for her regular service.
Substantivo
outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts)
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fit out again