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Regroup for Dummies

verb

pronunciation: ri'grup

What does Regroup really mean?

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Regroup means when we take a group of things, ideas, or people, and gather them together in a new or different way. It's like when we're playing with a bunch of toys spread out on the floor, and we decide to put all the cars together, all the dolls together, and all the blocks together. We are regrouping the toys to make it easier for us to find and play with them.

Do you know when you do math, and sometimes you have to add or subtract really big numbers? Well, when we talk about regrouping in math, it means that when we are adding or subtracting these big numbers, sometimes we have to rearrange them or change their places to make things easier.

Let's say we want to add 26 and 17 together. If we try to add them just as they are, it might be a little difficult because it's not so easy to add 6 and 7 at once. But if we regroup, we can make it simpler. So, we can change the places of these numbers and regroup them to make it easier for us. Now, we will put the 6 and the 7 together, which makes 13, and then we can add the 20 and the 1. So, 20 plus 1 is 21. Then, we add 13 and 21, and we get the total of 34.

Regrouping can also mean something different when we talk about people or ideas. Imagine you are playing in a soccer team, and during the game, everyone gets a little bit mixed up and positioned in different places on the field. When the coach notices this, they might shout, "Let's regroup!" This means that the team needs to come back together or adjust their positions so that they can work better as a team and be more effective in playing the game.

In conclusion, to regroup means to gather things, ideas, or people together in a new or different way. It can be about rearranging numbers in math to make them easier to add or subtract, or it can be about gathering people or ideas to work better as a team or solve a problem. So, next time you hear or see the word "regroup," remember that it's all about bringing things together in a different way to make things simpler or more effective.

Revised and Fact checked by Liam Lewis on 2023-10-29 17:09:22

Regroup In a sentece

Learn how to use Regroup inside a sentece

  • When you have a lot of toys scattered around your room, you can regroup them by putting all the cars in one place, dolls in another, and building blocks in a different spot.
  • Imagine you have a bag of colorful beads, and you want to make a necklace with different patterns. You can regroup the beads by separating them based on colors.
  • If you have a bunch of marbles and want to count how many you have, it might be easier to regroup them into groups of tens. Then you can count the groups and know the total number of marbles.
  • When you play a game with cards, sometimes you need to regroup the cards in your hand to organize them by suits, like hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades.
  • Imagine you have a box of assorted puzzle pieces. To solve the puzzle more easily, you can regroup the pieces by finding similar colors or edge shapes.

Regroup Synonyms

Words that can be interchanged for the original word in the same context.

Regroup Hypernyms

Words that are more generic than the original word.