Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 20
Reclaim (v. i.) To draw back; to give way. [R. & Obs.] -- Spenser.
Reclaim (n.) [U] 改造，感化 The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. [Obs.]
Reclaim (v.) Claim back [syn: {reclaim}, {repossess}].
Reclaim (v.) Reuse (materials from waste products) [syn: {reclaim}, {recover}].
Reclaim (v.) Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" [syn: {reform}, {reclaim}, {regenerate}, {rectify}].
Reclaim (v.) Make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes".
Reclaim (v.) Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn: {domesticate}, {domesticize}, {domesticise}, {reclaim}, {tame}].
Reclaimable (a.) That may be reclaimed.
Reclaimant (n.) One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.
Reclaimer (n.) One who reclaims.
Reclaimless (a.) That can not be reclaimed.
Reclamation (n.) The act or process of reclaiming.
Reclamation (n.) Representation made in opposition; remonstrance.
Reclasp (v. i.) To clasp or unite again.
Reclinant (a.) Bending or leaning backward.
Reclinate (a.) Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.
Reclination (n.) The act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.
Reclination (n.) The angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.
Reclination (n.) The act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.
Reclined (imp. & p. p.) of Recline.
Reclining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recline.
Recline (v. t.) To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
The mother Reclined her dying head upon his breast. -- Dryden.
Recline (v. i.) To lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.
Recline (v. i.) To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.
Recline (a.) Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining. [R.]
They sat, recline On the soft downy bank, damasked with flowers. -- Milton.
Recline (v.) Move the upper body backwards and down [syn: lean back, recline].
Recline (v.) Cause to recline; "She reclined her head on the pillow."
Recline (v.) Lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch" [syn: recumb, repose, recline].
Reclined (a.) (Bot.) Falling or turned downward; reclinate.
Recliner (n.) One who, or that which, reclines.
Recliner (n.) Specifically: An armchair with a back that can be adjusted to lean backward, and a footrest that can be moved up to support the legs, or folded under the chair when the person is sitting up; the back and footrest are often geared so that they move together, allowing the chair to be conveniently adjusted either for sitting up or for lying back; also called a reclining chair.
Recliner (n.) An armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it [syn: recliner, reclining chair, lounger].
Reclining (a.) (Bot.) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.
Reclining (a.) (Bot.) Recumbent.
Reclining dial, A dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. -- Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).
Reclining (n.) The act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position.
Reclose (v. t.) To close again. -- Pope.
Reclothe (v. t.) To clothe again.
Reclude (v. t.) To open; to unclose. [R.] -- Harvey.
Recluse (a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.
In meditation deep, recluse From human converse. -- J. Philips.
Recluse (n.) A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.
Recluse (n.) The place where a recluse dwells. [Obs.] -- Foxe.
Recluse (v. t.) To shut up; to seclude. [Obs.]
Recluse (a.) Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive, withdrawn].
Recluse (n.) One who lives in solitude [syn: hermit, recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte].
Reclusely (adv.) In a recluse or solitary manner.
Recluseness (n.) Quality or state of being recluse.
Reclusion (n.) A state of retirement from the world; seclusion.
Reclusive (a.) Affording retirement from society. "Some reclusive and religious life." -- Shak.
Reclusive (a.) Disposed to avoid the company of other people; living like a recluse [1]; not sociable; -- of people.
Reclusive (a.) Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive, withdrawn].
Reclusive (a.) Providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot" [syn: cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered].
Reclusory (n.) The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.
Recoct (v. t.) To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct. [Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Recoction (n.) A second coction or preparation; a vamping up.
Recognition (n.) 認出，識別；認識 [U]；承認；確認；認可 [U] The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.
The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God. -- Hooker.
Recognition (n.) The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; "the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work"; "she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own" [syn: {recognition}, {acknowledgment}, {acknowledgement}].
Recognition (n.) The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer" [syn: {recognition}, {identification}].
Recognition (n.) Approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying" [syn: {recognition}, {credit}].
Recognition (n.) Coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases" [syn: {realization}, {realisation}, {recognition}].
Recognition (n.) (Biology) The ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape; "molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities."
Recognition (n.) The explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country; "territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991."
Recognition (n.) An acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid; "the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States".
Recognition (n.) Designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body; "he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman".
Recognition (n.) Contracts. An acknowledgment that something which has been done by one man in the name of another, was done by authority of the latter.
Recognition (n.) A recognition by the principal of the agency of another in the particular instance, or in similar instances, is evidence of the authority of the agent, so that the recognition may be either express or implied. As an instance of an implied recognition may be mentioned the case of one who subscribes policies in the name of another and, upon a loss happening, the latter pays the amount. 1 Camp. R. 43, n. a; 1 Esp. Cas. 61; 4 Camp. R. 88.
Recognitor (n.) One of a jury impaneled on an assize.
Recognitory (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
Recognizability (n.) The quality or condition of being recognizable.
Recognizable (a.) Capable of being recognized.
Recognizance (n.) An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.
Recognizance (n.) The verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.
Recognizance (n.) A token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.
Recognizance (n.) Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.
Recognization (n.) Recognition.
Recognized (imp. & p. p.) of Recognize.
Recognizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recognize.
Recognize (v. t.) To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.
Recognize (v. t.) To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.
Recognize (v. t.) To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.
Recognize (v. t.) To show appreciation of; as, to recognize services by a testimonial.
Recognize (v. t.) To review; to reexamine.
Recognize (v. t.) To reconnoiter.
Recognize (v. i.) To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars.
Recognizee (n.) The person in whose favor a recognizance is made.
Recognizer (n.) One who recognizes; a recognizor.
Recognizor (n.) One who enters into a recognizance.
Recognosce (v. t.) To recognize.
Recoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Recoil.
Recoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recoil.
Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
Recoil (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
Recoil (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.
Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
Recoil (n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.
Recoil (n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.
Recoiler (n.) One who, or that which, recoils.
Recoilingly (adv.) In the manner of a recoil.
Recoilment (n.) Recoil.
Recoin (v. t.) To coin anew or again.
Recoinage (n.) The act of coining anew.
Recoinage (n.) That which is coined anew.
Re-collect (v. t.) To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops.
God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. -- Barrow.
Recollected (imp. & p. p.) of Recollect.
Recollecting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recollect.
Recollect (v. t.) To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
Recollect (v. t.) Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.
The Tyrian queen . . . Admired his fortunes, more admired the man; Then recollected stood. -- Dryden.
Recollect (n.) (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. [Written also Recollet.] -- Addis & Arnold.
Recollect (v.) Recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" [syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block, draw a blank, forget].
Recollection (n.) The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
Recollection (n.) The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.
Recollection (n.) That which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence. "One of his earliest recollections." -- Macaulay.
Recollection (n.) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control. [Archaic]
From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection. -- Robertson.
Syn: Reminiscence; remembrance. See Memory.
Recollection (n.) The ability to recall past occurrences [syn: remembrance, recollection, anamnesis].
Recollection (n.) The process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode" [syn: recall, recollection, reminiscence].
Recollection (n.) Something recalled to the mind.
Recollective (a.) Having the power of recollecting. -- J. Foster.
Recollective (a.) Good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory" [syn: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious] [ant: forgetful, short, unretentive].
Compare: Recollect
Recollect (n.) [See Recollet.] (Eccl.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans. [Written also Recollet.] -- Addis & Arnold.
Recollet (n.) (Eccl.) Same as Recollect, n.
Recolonization (n.) A second or renewed colonization.
Recolonize (v. t.) To colonize again.
Recombination (n.) Combination a second or additional time.
Recombination (n.) (Physics) A combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles.
Recombination (n.) (Genetics) A combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents.
Recombine (v. t.) To combine again.
Recombine (v.) Undergo genetic recombination; "The DNA can recombine."
Recombine (v.) Cause genetic recombination; "should scientists recombine DNA?"
Recombine (v.) To combine or put together again.
Recomfort (v. t.) To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to. -- Bacon.
Gan her recomfort from so sad affright. -- Spenser.
Recomfortless (a.) Without comfort. [Obs.]
Recomforture (n.) The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Recommence (v. i.) To commence or begin again. -- Howell.
Recommence (v. i.) To begin anew to be; to act again as. [Archaic.]
He seems desirous enough of recommencing courtier. -- Johnson.
Recommence (v. t.) To commence again or anew.
Recommence (v.) Cause to start anew; "The enemy recommenced hostilities after a few days of quiet."
Recommence (v.) Begin again; "we recommenced his reading after a short nap."
Recommencement (n.) A commencement made anew.
Recommencement (n.) Beginning again [syn: resumption, recommencement].
Recommended (imp. & p. p.) of Recommend.