Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 26
Redressal (n.) Redress.
Redresser (n.) One who redresses.
Redressible (a.) Such as may be redressed.
Redressive (a.) Tending to redress.
Redressless (a.) Not having redress; such as can not be redressed; irremediable.
Redressment (n.) The act of redressing; redress.
Red-riband (n.) The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.
Redroot (n.) A name of several
plants having red roots, as the
Redsear (v. i.) To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short.
Redshank (n.) A common
Redshank (n.) The fieldfare.
Redshank (n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
Red-short (a.) Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron.
Redskin (n.) A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin.
Redstart (n.) A small, handsome
European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; --
called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is
P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd
allied genera, native of
Redstart (n.) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches.
Redstreak (n.) A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple.
Redstreak (n.) Cider pressed from redstreak apples.
Redtail (n.) The red-tailed hawk.
Redtail (n.) The European redstart.
Red-tailed (a.) Having a red tail.
Red-tape (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.
Red-tapism (n.) Strict adherence to official formalities.
Red-tapist (n.) One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities.
Redthroat (n.) A small Australian singing bird (Phyrrholaemus brunneus). The upper parts are brown, the center of the throat red.
Redtop (n.) A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
Redub (v. t.) To refit; to repair, or make reparation for; hence, to repay or requite.
Reduced (imp. & p. p.) of Reduce.
Reducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reduce.
Reduce (n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [Obs.]
And to his brother's house reduced his wife. -- Chapman.
The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. -- Evelyn.
Reduce (n.) To bring to any inferior state, with respect to rank, size, quantity, quality, value, etc.; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; to impair; as, to reduce a sergeant to the ranks; to reduce a drawing; to reduce expenses; to reduce the intensity of heat. "An ancient but reduced family." -- Sir W. Scott.
Nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it, to reduce it. -- Tillotson.
Having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their fears. -- Milton.
Hester Prynne was shocked at the condition to which she found the clergyman reduced. -- Hawthorne.
Reduce (n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort.
Reduce (n.) To bring to a certain state or condition by grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp.
It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. -- Milton.
Reduce (n.) To bring into a certain order, arrangement, classification, etc.; to bring under rules or within certain limits of descriptions and terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.
Reduce (n.) (Arith.) To change, as numbers, from one denomination into another without altering their value, or from one denomination into others of the same value; as, to reduce pounds, shillings, and pence to pence, or to reduce pence to pounds; to reduce days and hours to minutes, or minutes to days and hours.
Reduce (n.) (Arith.) To change the form of a quantity or expression without altering its value; as, to reduce fractions to their lowest terms, to a common denominator, etc.
Reduce (n.) (Chem.) To add an electron to an atom or ion.
Specifically: To remove oxygen from; to deoxidize.
(Metallurgy) To bring to the metallic state by separating from combined oxygen and impurities; as, metals are reduced from their ores. (Chem.) To combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen or any other reducing agent; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; aldehydes can be reduced to alcohols by lithium hydride; -- opposed to oxidize.
Reduce (n.) (Med.) To restore to its proper place or condition, as a displaced organ or part; as, to reduce a dislocation, a fracture, or a hernia.
Reduced iron (Chem.), Metallic iron obtained through deoxidation of an oxide of iron by exposure to a current of hydrogen or other reducing agent. When hydrogen is used the product is called also iron by hydrogen.
To reduce an equation (Alg.), To bring the unknown quantity by itself on one side, and all the known quantities on the other side, without destroying the equation.
To reduce an expression (Alg.), To obtain an equivalent expression of simpler form.
To reduce a square (Mil.), To reform the line or column from the square.
Syn: To diminish; lessen; decrease; abate; shorten; curtail; impair; lower; subject; subdue; subjugate; conquer.
Reducement (n.) Reduction. -- Milton.
Reducent (a.) Tending to reduce.
Reducent (n.) A reducent agent.
Reducer (n.) One who, or that which, reduces.
Reducible (a.) Capable of being reduced.
Reducibleness (n.) Quality of being reducible.
Reducing () a & n. from Reduce.
Reducing furnace (Metal.), A furnace for reducing ores.
Reducing pipe fitting, A pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one.
Reducing valve, A device for automatically maintaining a diminished pressure of steam, air, gas, etc., in a pipe, or other receiver, which is fed from a boiler or pipe in which the pressure is higher than is desired in the receiver.
Reducing (n.) Any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent [syn: reduction, reducing].
Reducing (n.) Loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing".
Reduct (v. t.) To reduce. [Obs.] -- W. Warde.
Reductibility (n.) The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.
Reduction (n.) The act of reducing, or state of being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.
Reduction (n.) (Arith. & Alg.) The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t.
Reduction (n.) (Astron.) The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc.
Reduction (n.) (Astron.) The preparation of the facts and measurements of observations in order to deduce a general result.
Reduction (n.) The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions. -- Fairholt.
Reduction (n.) (Logic) The bringing of a syllogism in one of the so-called imperfect modes into a mode in the first figure.
Reduction (n.) (Chem. & Metal.) The act, process, or result of reducing; as, the reduction of iron from its ores; the reduction of aldehyde from alcohol.
Reduction (n.) (Med.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.
Reduction ascending (Arith.), The operation of changing numbers of a lower into others of a higher denomination, as cents to dollars.
Reduction descending (Arith.), The operation of changing numbers of a higher into others of a lower denomination, as dollars to cents.
Syn: Diminution; decrease; abatement; curtailment; subjugation; conquest; subjection.
Reduction (n.) The act of decreasing or reducing something [syn: decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down] [ant: increase, step-up].
Reduction (n.) Any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent [syn: reduction, reducing].
Reduction (n.) The act of reducing complexity [syn: reduction, simplification].
Reduction
Contraction
(Or "contraction") The process of transforming an expression according to certain reduction rules. The most important forms are beta reduction (application of a lambda abstraction to one or more argument expressions) and delta reduction (application of a mathematical function to the required number of arguments).
An evaluation strategy (or reduction strategy), determines which part of an expression (which redex) to reduce first.
There are many such strategies.
See graph reduction, string reduction, normal order reduction, applicative order reduction, parallel reduction, alpha conversion, beta conversion, delta conversion, eta conversion.
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Reductive (a.) Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing.
Reductive (n.) A reductive agent. -- Sir M. Hale.
Reductive (a.) Characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" -- R.H.Rovere
Reductively (adv.) By reduction; by consequence.
Reduit (n.) (Fort.) A central or retired work within any other work. Redundance
Redundance (n.) Alt. of Redundancy
Redundancy (n.) The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.
Redundancy (n.) That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant.
Labor . . . throws off redundacies. -- Addison.
Redundancy (n.) (Law) Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains.
Redundancy (n.) Repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission.
Redundancy (n.) The attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers" [syn: redundancy, redundance].
Redundancy (n.) (Electronics) A system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails.
Redundancy (n.) Repetition of an act needlessly.
Redundancy, () The provision of multiple interchangeable components to perform a single function in order to provide resilience (to cope with failures and errors). Redundancy normally applies primarily to hardware.
For example, A cluster may contain two or three computers doing the same job. They could all be active all the time thus giving extra performance through parallel processing and load balancing; one could be active and the others simply monitoring its activity so as to be ready to take over if it failed ("warm standby"); the "spares" could be kept turned off and only switched on when needed ("cold standby").
Another common form of hardware redundancy is disk mirroring.
Redundancy, () Data redundancy.
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Redundancy. () Matter introduced in an answer, or pleading, which is foreign to the bill or articles.
Redundancy. () In the case of Dysart v. Dysart, 3 Curt. Ecc. R. 543, in giving the judgment of the court, Dr. Lushington says: "It may not, perhaps, be easy to define the meaning of this term [redundant] in a short sentence, but the true meaning I take to be this: the respondent is not to insert in his answer any matter foreign to the articles he is called upon to answer, although such matter may be admissible in a plea; but he may, in his answer, plead matter by way of explanation pertinent to the articles, even if such matter shall be solely in his own knowledge and to such extent incapable of proof; or he may state matter which can be substantiated by witnesses; but in this latter instance, if such matter be introduced into the answer and not afterwards put in the plea or proved, the court will give no weight or credence to such part of the answer."
Redundancy. () A material distinction is to be observed between redundancy in the allegation and redundancy in the proof. In the former case, a variance between the allegation and the proof will be fatal if the redundant allegations are descriptive of that which is essential. But in the latter case, redundancy cannot vitiate, because more is proved than is alleged, unless the matter superfluously proved goes to contradict some essential part of the allegation. 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 67; 1 Stark. Ev. 401.
Redundant (a.) Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.
Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. -- Arbuthnot.
Redundant (a.) Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.
Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. -- I. Watts.
Syn: Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.
Redundant (a.) More than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus].
Redundant (a.) Repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant [syn: pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological].
Redundant (a.) Superfluous; needless; _de trop_.
The Sultan said: "There's evidence abundant To prove this unbelieving dog redundant."
To whom the Grand Vizier, with mien impressive, Replied: "His head, at least, appears excessive." Habeeb Suleiman
Mr. Debs is a redundant citizen. Theodore Roosevelt
Redundantly (adv.) In a refundant manner.
Reduplicate (a.) Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
Reduplicate (a.) (Bot.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the ?stivation of certain flowers.
Reduplicate (v. t.) To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
Reduplicate (v. t.) (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.
Reduplicate (v.) Form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: reduplicate, geminate].
Reduplicate (v.) Make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate].
Reduplication (n.) The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
Reduplication (n.) (Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
Reduplication (n.) (Philol.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
Reduplication (n.) Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next [syn: anadiplosis, reduplication].
Reduplication (n.) The syllable added in a reduplicated word form.
Reduplication (n.) A word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word).
Reduplication (n.) The act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) [syn: reduplication, reiteration].
Reduplicative (a.) Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate. -- I. Watts.
Reduvid (n.) (Zool.) Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.
Redweed (n.) (Bot.) The red poppy ({Papaver Rhoeas). -- Dr. Prior.
Redwing (n.) (Zool.) A European thrush ({Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush.
Redwing (n.) (Zool.) A North American passerine bird ({Agelarius ph[oe]niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.
Redwing (n.) North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings [syn: red-winged blackbird, redwing, Agelaius phoeniceus].
Redwing (n.) Small European thrush having reddish flanks [syn: redwing, Turdus iliacus].
Redwithe (n.) (Bot.) A west Indian climbing shrub ({Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
Redwood (n.) (Bot.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
Redwood (n.) (Bot.) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
Note: The redwood of Andaman is Pterocarpus dalbergioides; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of Erythoxylum; that of Brazil, the species of Humirium.
Redwood (n.) The soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees.
Redwood (n.) Either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae [syn: sequoia, redwood].
Redwood -- U.S. County in Minnesota
Population (2000): 16815
Housing Units (2000): 7230
Land area (2000): 879.726014 sq. miles (2278.479819 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.512176 sq. miles (3.916517 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 881.238190 sq. miles (2282.396336 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.411100 N, 95.237056 W
Headwords:
Redwood
Redwood, MN
Redwood County
Redwood County, MN
Redwood, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 584
Housing Units (2000): 277
Land area (2000): 2.035972 sq. miles (5.273143 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.514751 sq. miles (1.333200 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.550723 sq. miles (6.606343 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61016
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 44.300703 N, 75.800489 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13679
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Redwood, NY
Redwood
Redwood, OR -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oregon
Population (2000): 5844
Housing Units (2000): 2529
Land area (2000): 4.840382 sq. miles (12.536531 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.063713 sq. miles (0.165017 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.904095 sq. miles (12.701548 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61250
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 42.420256 N, 123.381486 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Redwood, OR
Redwood
Redwood, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
Population (2000): 3586
Housing Units (2000): 946
Land area (2000): 5.872597 sq. miles (15.209955 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.068575 sq. miles (0.177609 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.941172 sq. miles (15.387564 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61352
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.814750 N, 97.913375 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Redwood, TX
Redwood
Ree (n.) See Rei.
Ree (v. t.) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Mortimer.
Rei (n.;pl. Reis) A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent. [Spelt also ree.]
Reebok (n.) (Zool.) The peele. [Written also rehboc and rheeboc.] Re-echo
Rheeboc (n.) [D. reebok roebuck.] (Zool.) The peele. [Written also reebok.]
Reecho (v. t.) To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon.
Reecho (v. t.) To repeat back.
Syn: echo back. Re-echo
Reecho (v. i.) To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant ; to echo repeatedly, again and again.
And a loud groan reechoes from the main. -- Pope.
Reecho (n.) The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.
Reecho (v.) Echo repeatedly, echo again and again.
Reecho (v.) Repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back.
Reecho (v.) Repeat back like an echo.
Reechy (a.) Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt.
Reed (a.) Red.
Reed (v. & n.) Same as Rede.
Reed (n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
Reed (n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).
Reed (n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
Reed (n.) An arrow, as made of a reed.
Reed (n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
Reed (n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.
Reed (n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
Reed (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.
Reed (n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
Reed (n.) Same as Reeding.
Reedbird (n.) (Zool.) The bobolink.