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# rewire

«rewire» in Mova's school dictionary: **To rewire a building, machine or circuit is to put new…** — 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 (rewire, rewires, rewired, rewiring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To rewire a building, machine or circuit is to put new electrical wires in it, or connect them in a new way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rewire/#m1)

2) (informal, science) To rewire the brain or your habits means to change how you think or act by practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rewire/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and DT, pupils rewire a simple circuit to add a switch or bulb. In everyday life, old houses need rewiring for safety; this job is for a qualified electrician, never for children — mains electricity can kill. In talk about learning, people say practice "rewires your brain".

### examples

- The electrician had to rewire the whole house. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rewire/#x1)
- We rewired the circuit so both bulbs lit up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rewire/#x2)
- Never try to rewire a plug at home; ask an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rewire/#x3)
- They are rewiring the old school hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rewire/#x4)
- Learning to play the piano can rewire your brain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rewire/#x5)
- He rewired his toy robot to make it move faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rewire/#x6)
- The flat was rewired before we moved in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rewire/#x7)

### note

Spelling: rewire, rewired, rewiring (drop the e before -ing). Safety: mains rewiring is only for trained adults. Battery circuits in class are safe.

### In the corpora

- [Many blind people use sounds more skilfully, partly because the brain rewires and attention is trained; their ears themselves are not stronger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/3-eyes-and-ears/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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