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# rename

«rename» in Mova's school dictionary: **To give someone or something a new name: The town renamed…** — 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

verb (rename, renames, renamed, renaming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To give someone or something a new name: The town renamed the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rename/#m1)

2) (computers) To change the name of a file or folder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rename/#m2)

3) (maths, US) To rewrite a number in another form, such as 1 ten as 10 ones when regrouping, or 4/8 as 1/2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rename/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In computing lessons pupils rename files. In US school maths, «rename» means regroup or write in an equal form: «Rename 3 hundreds as 30 tens» or «rename 6/8 as 3/4». In history, streets and cities are renamed. In stories a pet is renamed. Phrases: «rename a file», «be renamed as/after», «rename the fraction».

### examples

- Right-click to rename the file. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rename/#x1)
- The street was renamed after a famous nurse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rename/#x2)
- Rename 1 ten as 10 ones to subtract. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rename/#x3)
- We renamed our goldfish Bubbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rename/#x4)
- Rename 2/4 in its simplest form: 1/2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rename/#x5)
- The team was renamed last season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rename/#x6)
- Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rename/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: renamed. Prefix «re-» = again. In maths, renaming never changes the value — only how it is written.

### In the corpora

- [Jacob wrestled all night with a mysterious man and was renamed Israel, a name often explained as "he struggles with God".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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