Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R

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Recede (v. i.) 退，後退；遠去；變模糊，變淡；變得渺茫 To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.

Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the insulted shore. -- Dryden.

All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. -- Bentley.

Recede (v. i.) To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.

Syn: To retire; retreat; return; retrograde; withdraw; desist.

Recede (v. i.) To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.

Recede (v.) Pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back] [ant: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress].

Recede (v.) Retreat [syn: fall back, lose, drop off, fall behind, recede] [ant: advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win].

Recede (v.) Become faint or more distant; "the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older".

Receipt (n.) The act of receiving; reception.

Receipt (n.) Reception, as an act of hospitality.

Receipt (n.) Capability of receiving; capacity.

Receipt (n.) Place of receiving.

Receipt (n.) Hence, a recess; a retired place.

Receipt (n.) A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.

Receipt (n.) A writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.

Receipt (n.) That which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.

Receipted (imp. & p. p.) of Receipt

Receipting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Receipt

Receipt (v. t.) To give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.

Receipt (v. t.) To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.

Receipt (v. i.) To give a receipt, as for money paid.

Receiptment (n.) The receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony.

Receiptor (n.) One who receipts; specifically (Law), one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.

Receit (n.) Receipt.

Receivability (n.) The quality of being receivable; receivableness.

Receivable (a.) Capable of being received.

Received (imp. & p. p.) of Receive

Receiving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Receive

Receive (v. t.) To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.

Receive (v. t.) Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.

Receive (v. t.) To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.

Receive (v. t.) To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.

Receive (v. t.) To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.

Receive (v. t.) To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.

Receive (v. t.) To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.

Receive (v. t.) To bat back (the ball) when served.

Receive (v. i.) To receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on Tuesdays.

Receive (v. i.) To return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.

Receive (v.) [ T ] (Get) (A2) 得到；收到；受到 To get or be given something.

// Did you receive my letter?

// I received a phone call from your mother.

// They received a visit from the police.

// She died after receiving a blow to the head.

// Members of Parliament received a 4.2 percent pay increase this year.

Receive (v.) [ T ] (Get) (Of a radio or television) （收音機或電視）接收 To change a signal into sounds and pictures.

See also: Reception.

Receive (v.) [ T ] (Welcome) (C1) 作出反應；回應 To react to something or someone in a particular way that shows how you feel about it, him, or her.

// The speech was well/ warmly/ coldly, etc. received by the conference delegates.

Be received into sth (Formal) 接受（某人）為成員；接納 To be made a member of an organization.

// He was received into the church.

Idiom:

Be on the receiving end (UK also Be at the receiving end) 遭受，承受（不愉快的事） If you are at/on the receiving end of something unpleasant that someone does, you suffer because of it.

// Sales assistants are often on the receiving end of verbal abuse from customers.

Receivedness (n.) The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion.

Receiver (n.) One who takes or receives in any manner.

Receiver (n.) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases.

Receiver (n.) One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.

Receiver (n.) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.

Receiver (n.) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.

Receiver (n.) The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.

Receiver (n.) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.

Receiver (n.) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

Receiver (n.) That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.

Receivership (n.) The state or office of a receiver.

Recelebrate (v. t.) To celebrate again, or anew.

Recency (n.) The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.

Recense (v. t.) To review; to revise.

Recension (n.) The act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.

Recension (n.) Specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.

Recension (n.) The result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.

Recensionist (n.) One who makes recensions; specifically, a critical editor.

Recent (a.) Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.

Recent (a.) Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.

Recenter (v. t.) To center again; to restore to the center.

Recently (adv.) Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received.

Recentness (n.) Quality or state of being recent.

Receptacle (n.) [C] 容器，貯藏器；貯藏所；【植】花托；囊托 That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a {basket}, a {vase}, a {bag}, a {reservoir}; a {repository}.

O sacred receptacle of my joys! -- Shak.

Receptacle (n.) (Bot.) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of {Flower}, and {Ovary}.

Receptacle (n.) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.

Receptacle (n.) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.

Receptacle (n.) A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.

Receptacle (n.) A container that is used to put or keep things in.

Receptacle (n.) Enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts.

Receptacle (n.) An electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert.

Receptacular (a.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.

Receptacula (n. pl. ) of Receptaculum

Receptaculum (n.) A receptacle; as, the receptaculum of the chyle.

Receptary (a.) Generally or popularly admitted or received.

Receptary (n.) That which is received.

Receptibility (n.) The quality or state of being receptible; receivableness.

Receptibility (n.) A receptible thing.

Receptible (a.) Such as may be received; receivable.

Reception (n.) The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.

Reception (n.) The state of being received.

Reception (n.) The act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.

Reception (n.) Acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.

Reception (n.) A retaking; a recovery.

Receptive (a.) Having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.

Receptiveness (n.) The quality of being receptive.

Receptivity (n.) The state or quality of being receptive.

Receptivity (n.) The power or capacity of receiving impressions, as those of the external senses.

Receptory (n.) Receptacle.

Recess (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

Recess (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

Recess (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.

Recess (n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.

Recess (n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.

Recess (n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.

Recess (n.) A sinus.

Recessed (imp. & p. p.) of Recess

Recessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recess

Recess (v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.

Recess (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

Recessed (a.) Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.

Recessed (a.) Withdrawn; secluded.

Recession (n.) The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.

Recession (n.) The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.

Recessional (a.) Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.

Recessive (a.) Going back; receding.

Rechabite (n.) One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.

Rechange (v. t. & i.) To change again, or change back.

Recharge (v. t. & i.) 再充電於；再裝填彈藥於；再控告；再襲擊 To charge or accuse in return.

Recharge (v. t. & i.) To attack again; to attack anew. -- Dryden.

Recharge (v.) Load anew; "She reloaded the gun carefully" [syn: recharge, reload].

Recharge (v.) Charge anew; "recharge a battery".

Recharge (v.) [ I or T ] (C1) （給電池）充電 If a battery recharges, it becomes filled with electricity so that it can work again and if you recharge a battery, you fill it with electricity.

Recharge (v. t.) Restore an electric charge to (a battery or a battery-operated device) by connecting it to a device that draws power from another source of electricity.

‘He plugged his razor in to recharge it.’

Recharge (v. i.) (Of a battery or battery-operated device) Be refilled with electrical power.

‘The drill takes about three hours to recharge.’

Recharge (v. t.) Refill (a container, lake, or aquifer) with water.

‘We recharged our glasses.’

Recharge (v. i.) Be refilled.

‘The rate at which the aquifer recharges naturally.’

Recharge (v. i.) (Of a person) Return to a normal state of mind or strength after a period of physical or mental exertion.

‘She needs a bit of time to recharge after giving so much of herself this morning.’

Recharge (n.) 再充電；再裝填彈藥；再控告；再襲擊 The replenishment of an aquifer by the absorption of water.

‘Extensive areas of trees reduce recharge to the underlying aquifers.’
Phrases:
Recharge one's batteries
Regain one's strength and energy by resting and relaxing for a time.

‘You said you wanted to get away from it all and recharge your batteries.’

Recharge one's batteries [C2] 恢復體力；恢復精力；休整 To rest and relax for a period of time so that you feel energetic again.

// She took a trip to the South of France to recharge her batteries.

Rechargeable (a.) （蓄電池）可再充電的 Capable of being recharged; "a rechargeable battery".

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