re
IPA: rˈeɪ
noun
- (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
- (in company names) Reinsurance.
- A municipality of Vestfold, Norway
- (rail transport) The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India.
- (video games, slang) Clipping of rematch. [A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.]
- (marketing, branding) Clipping of reinsurance. (used in the branding of reinsurance company names) [(business, insurance) Insurance purchased by insurance companies that spreads the risk associated with selling insurance around so the danger of one large monetary loss is minimized.]
- (Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Ra [(Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian god of the Sun.]
- Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army.
- (computing theory) Abbreviation 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
- Abbreviation of religious education. [The teaching of a particular religion, and its doctrines, beliefs etc.]
- Abbreviation of rare earth. [(chemistry) Any of the naturally occurring oxides of the lanthanide metals; they are widely distributed in relatively small concentrations and are used in glassmaking, ceramic glazes etc.]
- (biochemistry, genetics) Initialism of response element.
- Abbreviation of real estate. [(US, Canada, Australia) Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground they are built on.]
- Abbreviation of renewable energy. [Energy that is collected from renewable resources, such as wind, water, or the sun, usually and especially as applied to a category of electrical generation.]
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Examples of "re" in Sentences
- The analogue signal is re created.
- I asked the article to be re titled Cowhand.
- They can be re included once activeness re proceeds.
- The reactor coolant is then re circulated to the reactor.
- In this sense, the concept of dissonance is re interpreted.
- He was rushed to hospital and the fingertip was re attached.
- For the Catholics this is the formal re invigoration of full Catholicity.
- It is unlike a percolator in that the brewed coffee is not re circulated.
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