Definition of "refit" in İngilizce

noun

1. The process of having something fitted again, repaired or restored.

   • The ship required a refit before setting out again.

verb

1. (transitive) To fit again; to put back into its place.

   • 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.

2. (transitive) To prepare for use again; to repair or restore.

   • to refit a garment; to refit ships of war

3. (transitive) To fit out or supply again (with something).

   • 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;

4. (intransitive, nautical) 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.

   • 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.