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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
Alternative form of Ra.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Egyptian, alt-of, alternative
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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name
Reinsurance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A municipality of Vestfold, Norway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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name
Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Qualifier: classics
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noun
A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Clipping of rematch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
Topics: video-games
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noun
Clipping of reinsurance, used in the branding of reinsurance company names.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
Topics: business, marketing
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noun
Clipping of age regressor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
Qualifier: age regression
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noun
Initialism of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a “yes” answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time. See more at RE (complexity) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Qualifier: computational complexity theory
Topics: computing, computing-theory, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Initialism of religious education.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of rare earth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of response element.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, genetics, medicine, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Initialism of real estate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of renewable energy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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noun
Initialism of run-time environment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Initialism of reverse engineering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
Initialism of reproductive endocrinologist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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prep
About, regarding, with reference to; used especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: about, apropos, as for, anent, apropos of, as far as, as regards, as relates to, as respects, as to, concerned with, connected with, concerning, dealing with, in reference to, in regard to, in regards to, in relation to, in respect of, IRT, in terms of, on, re, referring to, regarding, relating to, relative to, respecting, with regard to, with respect to, WRT, touching
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prep
Alternative form of re (“regarding”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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symbol
rupee
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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symbol
Earth radius: the radius of planet Earth, regarded as a unit of measurement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: mul:R_🜨, mul:R_♁
Antonyms: none provided
symbol
The radius of the Earth specifically.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: sum of parts
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Synonyms: mul:R_🜨, mul:R_♁
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: ray
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: solfa syllable
noun
ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the king of the gods
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Ra
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Egyptian deity
noun
a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rhenium, atomic number 75
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metallic element, metal
History
Meaning borrowed from Egyptian r:a-ra (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”), with the form of the word borrowed from Coptic ⲣⲏ (rē, “sun”).
Clipping of reinsurance.
Abbreviations.
From Glover's solmization, from Middle English re (“second degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian re in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin resonāre (“made to resound”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
From the prefix re-.
Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).
See at re.
Across languages
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
