"reinventing the wheel" meaning in English

See reinventing the wheel in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} reinventing the wheel (uncountable)
  1. The action of taking the effort to devise a solution to a problem, unaware of the fact that someone else has already devised the same solution to the same problem. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-reinventing_the_wheel-en-noun-HujKk6Du

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} reinventing the wheel
  1. present participle and gerund of reinvent the wheel. Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: reinvent the wheel
    Sense id: en-reinventing_the_wheel-en-verb-H9NOFroH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 65

Download JSON data for reinventing the wheel meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "reinventing the wheel (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The action of taking the effort to devise a solution to a problem, unaware of the fact that someone else has already devised the same solution to the same problem."
      ],
      "id": "en-reinventing_the_wheel-en-noun-HujKk6Du",
      "links": [
        [
          "solution",
          "solution"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "reinventing the wheel"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "reinventing the wheel",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "reinvent the wheel"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of reinvent the wheel."
      ],
      "id": "en-reinventing_the_wheel-en-verb-H9NOFroH",
      "links": [
        [
          "reinvent the wheel",
          "reinvent the wheel#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "reinventing the wheel"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "reinventing the wheel (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The action of taking the effort to devise a solution to a problem, unaware of the fact that someone else has already devised the same solution to the same problem."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "solution",
          "solution"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "reinventing the wheel"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "reinventing the wheel",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "reinvent the wheel"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of reinvent the wheel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reinvent the wheel",
          "reinvent the wheel#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "reinventing the wheel"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.