regaining | (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: restitution, restoration, return |
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regalia | (noun) paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office) | - |
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(noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: array, raiment |
regard | (noun) a long fixed look | Synonyms: gaze |
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(noun) (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point | Synonyms: respect |
(noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: attentiveness, heed, paying attention |
(noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: esteem, respect |
(noun) (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare | Synonyms: compliments, wish |
(noun) a feeling of friendship and esteem | Synonyms: respect |
(noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: esteem, respect |
regatta | (noun) a meeting for boat races | - |
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regency | (noun) the office of a regent | - |
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(noun) the period of time during which a regent governs | - |
regeneration | (noun) the activity of spiritual or physical renewal | - |
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(noun) forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting | Synonyms: re-formation |
(noun) (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs | - |
(noun) feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input | Synonyms: positive feedback |
regent | (noun) someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch | - |
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(noun) members of a governing board | Synonyms: trustee |
regest | (noun) (archaic, obsolete) A register. | - |
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reggae | (noun) popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar | - |
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regicide | (noun) the act of killing a king | - |
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(noun) someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king | - |
regime | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regimen |
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(noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, government |
regimen | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regime |
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regiment | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, which can be divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions. | - |
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regimentals | (noun) the military uniform and insignia of a regiment | - |
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regimentation | (noun) the imposition of order or discipline | - |
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region | (noun) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve | Synonyms: area |
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(noun) a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about | Synonyms: realm |
(noun) the extended spatial location of something | Synonyms: part |
(noun) a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth | - |
(noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: neighborhood |
regionalism | (noun) loyalty to the interests of a particular region | - |
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(noun) a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region | - |
(noun) a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas | - |
regionality | (noun) The property of being of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district. | - |
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(noun) The property of being of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region. | - |
register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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(noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
(noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
(noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
(noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
(noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
(noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
registrant | (noun) a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby) | - |
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registrar | (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, recorder |
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(noun) the administrator responsible for student records | - |
(noun) a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company | - |
registration | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrollment, enrolment |
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(noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, readjustment |
(noun) (music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops | - |
(noun) a document certifying an act of registering | - |
(noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: enrollment |
registry | (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: register |
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regnellidium | (noun) small latex-containing aquatic fern of southern Brazil | Synonyms: Regnellidium diphyllum |
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regosol | (noun) a type of soil consisting of unconsolidated material from freshly deposited alluvium or sand | - |
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regress | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regression, retrogression, retroversion, reversion |
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(noun) the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence | Synonyms: reasoning backward |
regression | (noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, retrogression, retroversion, reversion |
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(noun) the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x) | Synonyms: regression toward the mean, simple regression, statistical regression |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state | - |
(noun) an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely | Synonyms: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation |
regret | (noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: rue, ruefulness, sorrow |
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regrets | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: declination |
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regular | (noun) a garment size for persons of average height and weight | - |
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(noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, habitue |
(noun) a dependable follower (especially in party politics) | - |
(noun) a soldier in the regular army | - |
regularisation | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularization, regulation |
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(noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularization |
regularity | (noun) the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate | - |
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(noun) a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles | Synonyms: geometrical regularity |
regularization | (noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regulation |
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(noun) the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) | Synonyms: regularisation |
regulating | (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulation |
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regulation | (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulating |
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(noun) the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular | Synonyms: regularisation, regularization |
(noun) a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior | Synonyms: rule |
(noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: ordinance |
(noun) (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered | - |
(noun) the state of being controlled or governed | - |
regulator | (noun) any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc. | - |
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(noun) a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) | Synonyms: governor |
(noun) an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest | - |
regur | (noun) a rich black loam of India | Synonyms: regur soil |
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regurgitation | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, vomit, vomiting |
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(noun) recall after rote memorization | - |
(noun) backflow of blood through a defective heart valve | - |