reassessment | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, revaluation, review |
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reassign | (verb) transfer somebody to a different position or location of work | Synonyms: transfer |
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reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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reassure | (verb) give reassurance to; give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain | - |
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reassured | (adjective) having confidence restored; freed from anxiety | - |
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reassuring | (adjective) restoring confidence and relieving anxiety | - |
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reassuringly | (adverb) in a reassuring manner | - |
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reata | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lariat, lasso, riata |
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reattribute | (verb) attribute to another source | - |
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reave | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, rifle, strip |
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reawaken | (verb) awaken once again | - |
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rebarbative | (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: repellant, repellent |
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rebate | (noun) a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together | Synonyms: rabbet |
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(noun) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid | Synonyms: discount |
(verb) cut a rebate in (timber or stone) | - |
(verb) join with a rebate | - |
(verb) give a reduction in the price during a sale | - |
rebato | (noun) a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century | Synonyms: rabato |
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rebel | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, insurrectionist |
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(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: maverick |
(verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: arise, rise, rise up |
(verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: renegade |
rebellion | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising |
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(noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | - |
rebellious | (adjective) discontented as toward authority | Synonyms: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent |
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(adjective) participating in organized resistance to a constituted government | - |
(adjective) resisting control or authority | - |
rebelliously | (adverb) in a rebellious manner | Synonyms: contumaciously, defiantly |
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rebelliousness | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: insubordination |
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(noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: defiance |
rebind | (verb) provide with a new binding | - |
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rebirth | (noun) a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life | Synonyms: conversion, spiritual rebirth |
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(noun) the revival of learning and culture | Synonyms: Renaissance, Renascence |
(noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: reincarnation, renascence |
(noun) after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body | Synonyms: metempsychosis |
reboot | (verb) cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes | Synonyms: boot, bring up |
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reborn | (adjective) spiritually reborn or converted | Synonyms: born-again |
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(adjective) restored to new life and vigor | Synonyms: revitalised, revitalized |
rebound | (noun) the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot | - |
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(noun) a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration | - |
(noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, recoil, repercussion |
(verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
reboxetine | (noun) an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine | Synonyms: Edronax |
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rebozo | (noun) a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used as a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women | - |
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rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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(verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
rebuff | (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: slight |
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(noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: repulse, snub |
(verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: repel, snub |
(verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, repel, repulse |
rebuild | (verb) build again | Synonyms: reconstruct |
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rebuilding | (noun) building again | - |
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rebuke | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval |
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(verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
rebuker | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: reproacher, reprover, upbraider |
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rebukingly | (adverb) in the manner of someone delivering a rebuke | - |
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reburial | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburying |
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rebury | (verb) bury again | - |
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reburying | (noun) the act of burying again | Synonyms: reburial |
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rebus | (noun) a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words | - |
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rebut | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: controvert, refute |
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(verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | Synonyms: refute |
rebuttal | (noun) the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument | - |
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(noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebutter |
rebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebuttal |
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(noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, refuter |
recalcitrance | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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recalcitrancy | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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recalcitrant | (adjective) marked by stubborn resistance to authority | - |
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(adjective) stubbornly resistant to authority or control | Synonyms: fractious, refractory |
recalcitrate | (verb) show strong objection or repugnance; manifest vigorous opposition or resistance; be obstinately disobedient | - |
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recalculate | (verb) calculate anew | - |
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recalculation | (noun) the act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data) | - |
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recall | (noun) the act of removing an official by petition | - |
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(noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recollection, reminiscence |
(noun) a call to return | - |
(noun) a bugle call that signals troops to return | - |
(noun) a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) | Synonyms: callback |
(verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recollect, remember, retrieve, think |
(verb) cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression | - |
(verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, return |
(verb) summon to return | Synonyms: call back |
(verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, withdraw |
(verb) make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution | - |
(verb) bring to mind | Synonyms: echo |
recant | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, resile, retract |
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recantation | (noun) a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion | Synonyms: abjuration, retraction |
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recap | (noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recapitulation, review |
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(noun) a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads | Synonyms: retread |
(verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recapitulate |
recapitulate | (verb) summarize briefly | Synonyms: recap |
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(verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: repeat, reprise, reprize |
(verb) repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life | - |
recapitulation | (noun) (music) the repetition of themes introduced earlier (especially when one is composing the final part of a movement) | - |
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(noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, review |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) in which musical themes that were introduced earlier are repeated | - |
(noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: palingenesis |
recapture | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: retaking |
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(noun) a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount | - |
(verb) capture again | Synonyms: retake |
(verb) take up anew | - |
(verb) experience anew | - |
(verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: retake |
recast | (verb) cast again, in a different role | - |
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(verb) cast again | Synonyms: remold, remould |
(verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: reforge, remodel |
recasting | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: rephrasing, rewording |
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recce | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recco, reccy |
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recco | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recce, reccy |
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reccy | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recce, recco |
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recede | (verb) become faint or more distant | - |
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(verb) retreat | Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind |
(verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, retire, retreat, withdraw |
receding | (adjective) (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back | - |
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(noun) the act of becoming more distant | Synonyms: recession |
(noun) a slow or gradual disappearance | Synonyms: fadeout |
receipt | (noun) the act of receiving | Synonyms: reception |
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(noun) an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made | - |
(verb) mark or stamp as paid | - |
(verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
receipts | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, revenue |
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receivable | (adjective) awaiting payment | - |
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receivables | (noun) money that you currently expect to receive from notes or accounts | - |
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receive | (verb) convert into sounds or pictures | - |
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(verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: find, get, incur, obtain |
(verb) accept as true or valid | - |
(verb) regard favorably or with disapproval | - |
(verb) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival | Synonyms: welcome |
(verb) partake of the Holy Eucharist sacrament | - |
(verb) express willingness to have in one's home or environs | Synonyms: invite, take in |
(verb) register (perceptual input) | Synonyms: pick up |
(verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: experience, get, have |
(verb) receive as a retribution or punishment | Synonyms: get |
(verb) get something; come into possession of | Synonyms: have |
(verb) have or give a reception | - |
(verb) experience as a reaction | Synonyms: encounter, meet |
received | (adjective) conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers | Synonyms: standard |
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(adjective) widely accepted as true or worthy | - |
receiver | (noun) set that receives radio or tv signals | Synonyms: receiving system |
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(noun) earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds | Synonyms: telephone receiver |
(noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: recipient |
(noun) (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties | Synonyms: liquidator |
(noun) a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass | Synonyms: pass catcher, pass receiver |
(noun) the tennis player who receives the serve | - |
receivership | (noun) the office of a receiver | - |
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(noun) a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can be preserved for the benefit of all | - |
(noun) the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver | - |
recency | (noun) a time immediately before the present | Synonyms: recentness |
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(noun) the property of having happened or appeared not long ago | Synonyms: recentness |
recent | (adjective) new | - |
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(adjective) of the immediate past or just previous to the present time | Synonyms: late |
recently | (adverb) in the recent past | Synonyms: late, lately, latterly, of late |
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recentness | (noun) a time immediately before the present | Synonyms: recency |
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(noun) the property of having happened or appeared not long ago | Synonyms: recency |
receptacle | (noun) a container that is used to put or keep things in | - |
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(noun) an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert | - |
(noun) enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts | - |
reception | (noun) the act of receiving | Synonyms: receipt |
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(noun) (American football) the act of catching a pass in football | - |
(noun) quality or fidelity of a received broadcast | - |
(noun) the manner in which something is greeted | Synonyms: response |
(noun) a formal party of people; as after a wedding | - |
receptionist | (noun) a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors | - |
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receptive | (adjective) ready or willing to receive favorably | Synonyms: open |
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(adjective) able to absorb liquid (not repellent) | - |
(adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system | Synonyms: centripetal, sensory |
(adjective) open to arguments, ideas, or change | - |
receptively | (adverb) in a receptive manner | - |
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receptiveness | (noun) willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) | Synonyms: openness, receptivity |
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receptivity | (noun) willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) | Synonyms: openness, receptiveness |
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receptor | (noun) an organ having nerve endings (in the skin or viscera or eye or ear or nose or mouth) that respond to stimulation | Synonyms: sense organ, sensory receptor |
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(noun) a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response | - |
recess | (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: break, respite, time out |
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(noun) an enclosure that is set back or indented | Synonyms: niche |
(noun) an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | Synonyms: inlet |
(noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, niche, recession |
(noun) a state of abeyance or suspended business | Synonyms: deferral |
(verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: adjourn, break up |
(verb) make a recess in | - |
(verb) put into a recess | - |
recessed | (adjective) resembling an alcove | - |
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(adjective) having a sunken area | Synonyms: deep-set, sunken |
recession | (noun) the act of becoming more distant | Synonyms: receding |
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(noun) the act of ceding back | Synonyms: ceding back |
(noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recessional |
(noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, niche, recess |
(noun) the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year | - |
recessional | (adjective) of or relating to receding | - |
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(noun) a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw | - |
(noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recession |
recessionary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessive |
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recessive | (adjective) (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessionary |
(noun) an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical | Synonyms: recessive allele |
recharge | (verb) charge anew | - |
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(verb) load anew | Synonyms: reload |
rechargeable | (adjective) capable of being recharged | - |
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rechauffe | (noun) warmed leftovers | - |
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recherche | (adjective) lavishly elegant and refined | Synonyms: exquisite |
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recidivate | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, regress, relapse, retrogress |
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recidivism | (noun) habitual relapse into crime | - |
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recidivist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, reversionist |
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(noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, repeater |
recipe | (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: formula |
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recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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(noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
reciprocal | (adjective) concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return | Synonyms: mutual |
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(adjective) of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function | - |
(noun) hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype | Synonyms: reciprocal cross |
(noun) (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 | Synonyms: multiplicative inverse |
(noun) something (a term or expression or concept) that has an inverse relation to something else | - |
reciprocality | (noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence | Synonyms: reciprocity |
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reciprocally | (adverb) in an inverse or contrary manner | Synonyms: inversely |
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(adverb) in a mutual or shared manner | Synonyms: mutually |
(adverb) (often followed by `for') in exchange or in reciprocation | Synonyms: in return |
reciprocate | (verb) alternate the direction of motion of | - |
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(verb) act, feel, or give mutually or in return | - |