redraw

verb

re·​draw (ˌ)rē-ˈdrȯ 

redrew (ˌ)rē-ˈdrü  ; redrawn (ˌ)rē-ˈdrȯn  ; redrawing; redraws

1

transitive : to draw (something) again

redraw a map/plan

Wars redrew the boundaries of the nation.

2

a

transitive : to project an image on (a display screen) again

The refresh rate is measured in Hertz, which translates to the number of times the screen is redrawn in one second.

—Jackie Fox

b

intransitive : to become refreshed (see refresh sense 5)

—used of a display screen or the visual information it presents

… the number of times the screen redraws per second will adjust based on the needs of the app—moment-to-moment.

—Lance Ulanoff

redraw

ˈrē-ˌdrȯ 

noun

plural redraws

Screen redraws never lagged or stuttered, and the hardware seemed well-equipped to handle the OS's requirements.

—Jon Phillips

Examples of redraw in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This continued into the early 20th century, but white Southerners also added a new twist: the refusal to redraw districts. —TIME, 1 Apr. 2024

The fall in births has also forced demographers to redraw projections. —Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Mar. 2024

The new lines could, theoretically, help tilt control of Congress. 3:44 Georgia lawmakers recently returned to Atlanta for a special session to redraw the state's political maps and expand the power of Black voters in the wake of a court ruling that the previous maps violated the Voting Rights Act. —Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023

And that bully in the Kremlin — Russian President Vladimir Putin — must not be allowed to rewrite the rules of the road and dismiss Ukraine’s rights as a sovereign nation, redraw borders and flout international law. —Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024

New York’s State Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision finding those maps were only temporary, ruling that the commission must redraw the state’s congressional districts. —Brian Bushard, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024

The new map completely redraws that district and others. —Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 16 Feb. 2024

Hahn’s district changed substantially in 2021, when, for the first time, an independent 14-member commission oversaw redistricting — a process that happens every 10 years to redraw political district lines. —Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023

When policy makers redraw political boundaries every ten years, there is often much debate over whether the new congressional districts fairly represent various minority groups. —Denise Lu, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1671, in the meaning defined at sense 1