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# modernised

«modernised» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made modern; changed with new equipment, methods or ideas…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (modernised); verb form (past of «modernise»: modernise, modernises, modernised, modernising – UK; modernize, modernized – US)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Made modern; changed with new equipment, methods or ideas so it is up to date: «a modernised kitchen». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#m1)

2) (verb, past) Past form of «modernise»: «They modernised the old school». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, countries «modernised» with railways, factories and schools, for example Japan after 1868. In everyday life, old buildings, trains and kitchens are modernised. Phrases: «a newly modernised station», «fully modernised», «modernised version».

### examples

- The station was modernised with lifts and new screens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#x1)
- Our school library has been modernised. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#x2)
- Japan modernised quickly in the late 1800s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#x3)
- Grandma's modernised kitchen has an induction hob. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#x4)
- The old fairy tale was modernised for the film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#x5)
- The hospital was modernised last year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#x6)
- The farm modernised its machines to save time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#x7)
- The modernised version of the song uses electric guitars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#x8)
- I have selected the incidents and modernised the spelling; otherwise the droll remains as it was told in Elizabethan times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/#x9)

### note

UK/Australia/NZ/Ireland usually spell «modernised»; US/Canada «modernized». Both correct. Related: modern, modernisation. Not a maths word.

### In the corpora

- [In the war of 1894–1895 Japan, which had modernised fast, defeated Qing China and took Taiwan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «modernised» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/modernised/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.