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remnant.noun,.plural.remnants
what is left over; a small remaining
part; remainder
in regard to.or.with
regard to.adverb
concerning,
relating
to, as relates to, with relation to, with
reference to, with
respect to, while speaking of; relatively,
pertinently,
as
to, as for, as respects, as regards, regarding, about
regard.noun,.plural.regards
careful consideration;
attention to and interest toward
(thinking about all the good she has done to help); taking heed of (Proverbs
15:5); if you regard someone or something as being a particular
thing or as having a particular quality,
you believe that they are that thing or have that quality (she regarded
creativity both as a gift and as a skill; many religious individuals regard
advice from their church as absolute);
regard is what you may think of something your attention is on; regard
is to consider in a particular way (how do you regard the belief that income
tax is necessary?); concern (she gives high regard to her appearance);
respect and affection;
esteem
(high regard for his teacher); regard implies
evaluation of worth rather than recognition of it; to look at attentively;
observe closely; to look upon or consider in a particular way; to hold
in esteem or respect (she regards her teachers highly); if you have regard
for someone or something, you respect
them and care about them; if you hold someone in high regard, you have
a lot of respect for them (she has a very high regard for him and what
he has achieved);
to relate
or refer
to; concern
(this item
regards their liability);
to take
into account; consider; good wishes expressing such sentiment
(give the family my best regards); regards are greetings; you use regards
in expressions such as 'best regards' and 'with kind regards' as a way
of expressing friendly feelings towards someone (give my regards to your
family); a particular point or aspect;
respect (she was lucky in that regard); concerning; in regard to or with
regard to; with respect to; you can use as regards to indicate
the subject that is being talked or written about (as regards vaccination,
the public should have full information); you can use 'with regard to'
or 'in regard to' to indicate the subject that is being talked or written
about (people are reviewing department policy with regard to vaccination
after so many emploees were ill, disabled or dead after the so-called safe
vaccines); you can use 'in this regard' or 'in that regard' to refer back
to something that you have just said (in this regard nothing has changed;
they have made a mistake in that regard)
intransitive
verb senses.to look or gaze; to give
heed; pay attention (he didn't pay attention to ancient buildings, thinking
that their history was unimportant for the present day)
regard, regarded,
regarding,
regards.transitive
verbs
to consider
as being special; to care for; have reference
to; to take into account (I regard this birthday
card as an example of her affection; some ancient
kings were highly regarded and others not so, such as Ahaz:.2Chronicles
28:27)
regardless,
regardlessly.adverbs
in spite
of everything; anyway (continues to work regardless of the impending
storm); irrespective of
regardless.adjective
heedless;
unmindful
regardlessness.noun,.plural.regardlessnesses
irregardless.adverb
means regardless;
it is a form that many people mistakenly believe to be a correct usage
in formal style but that in fact has no legitimate antecedents
in either standard or nonstandard varieties; the word was likely coined
from a blend of irrespective and regardless; perhaps this is why critics
have sometimes insisted that there is 'no such word' as irregardless (but
ah these critics), a charge they would not think of leveling at a bona
fide nonstandard word such as ain't, which has an ancient genealogy
remedial.adjective
providing or intending
to provide a remedy
remediation.noun,.plural.remediations
remedy.noun,.plural.remedies
a means of counteracting.something.undesirable
remedy, remedied,
remedying,
remedies.transitive
verbs
to relieve
or cure a disease or disorder; a treatment;
to set right (doctors are very good at fixing broken bones); remove, rectify
or counteract;
to correct;
cure; solve the issue;
alleviate
race.noun,.plural.races
overall,
a race is one of the major.groups
which human
beings can be divided into according to their physical features,
such as the color of their skin, hair and general
height; a local geographic
or global human population
distinguished
as a more or less distinct
group by genetically.transmitted
physical characteristics;
a group of people united or classified
together on the basis
of common history, nationality
or geographic distribution (the Russian race); a genealogical
line; a lineage
(last of the race of ancient
Jeroboam I); human beings considered as a group (the non terrestrial
races
racist.noun,.plural.racists
a program and practice of racial segregation
(separation of races),
persecution
and
domination
racist.adjective
racism.noun,.plural.racisms
the belief that race accounts for differences
in human character
or ability and that a particular
race is superior
to others, thus, this is a belief in separation, such as what
evolutionary tenets have connoted; discrimination
or
prejudice based on race
racial.adjective
arising from or based
on differences
among human
racial groups (racial or ethnic
food and dress; racial discrimination);
of, relating
to or characteristic
of race or races (beginning
of the races)
racially.adverb
Biology:.a
population of organisms.differing
from others of the same species
in the frequency
of hereditary.traits;
a subspecies; a breed
or strain,
as of domestic
animals
race, raced,
racing,
races.verbs
intransitive
verb use.in sports, to compete
in a contest
of speed; to move rapidly
or at top speed (raced home in time for eat with the family; it was a race
against time to get it all done before company arrived); to run too rapidly
(an engine that was racing until it warmed itself up)
transitive
verb use.in sports, to compete against
in a race; to cause to compete in a race; enter in a contest (the little
girl entered her favorite horse at the town's annual fair horse racing
derby)
recant,
recanted,
recanting,
recants.verbs
to make a renunciation
or withdrawal of statements, beliefs, etc. formerly
held (example of Judas who betrayed
Christ:.Matthew
16:21)
transitive
verb use.to make a retraction
or
disavowal of (a statement or
belief to which one has previously committed oneself)
intransitive verb use.to
make a retraction or disavowal of a previously held statement or belief
recanter.noun,.plural.recanters
recantation.noun,.plural.recantations
reprehension.noun,.plural.reprehensions
reprehensible.adjective
deserving rebuke
or censure; blameworthy; culpable
reprehensibility,
reprehensibleness.nouns
reprehensibly.adverb
reprehend, reprehends,
reprehended,
reprehending.transitive
verbs
to reprove;
censure;
criticize;
from Middle
English 'reprehenden' which is from Latin
'reprehendere' where 're- + prehendere' means 'to seize'
recombinant.adjective
relating to or exhibiting genetic recombination
(recombinant
progeny); relating
to or containing
recombinant DNA; produced
by recombinant DNA technology
recombinant.noun,.plural.recombinants
recombinant DNA (reinsertion
of concocted gene combinations)-noun,.plural.recombinant
DNAs
called this because the genes
are made of DNA; genetically engineered
DNA prepared in vitro (latin for 'living') by cutting up DNA molecules
and splicing together specific DNA fragments usually from more than one
species
of organism; recombinant DNA is
a way of joining genes in the test tube and reinserting them into an organism,
the method being used to create organisms with combinations of characteristics
that could not arise by natural means, resulting from novel (new) gene
combinations, the old, classical rules, which restricted mating and genetic
exchange to members of a species, no longer being necessary to apply-
retrovirus.noun,.plural.retroviruses
any of a family (Retroviridae) of RNA-viruses-(as
HIV was once thought to be) that produce reverse
transcriptase by means of which DNA
is produced using their RNA as a pattern maker and incorporated into the
genome
of infected cells and that includes numerous tumorigenic viruses; the name
'retroviruses'
arises because of the copying of the RNA which forms the viral
'genes' (the genome) 'backwards' into DNA, a direction contrary to that
long considered universal, that is, from DNA into RNA
retroviral.adjective
reiterate, reiterated,
reiterating,
reiterates.transitive
verbs
to state or do over again; to iterate; the words
iterate
and reiterate mean the same (go
figure), welcome
to English
reiteration.noun,.plural.reiterations
reiterative.adjective
reiteratively.adverb
repressive.adjective
causing or inclined
to cause repression (a repressive dictatorship) repressively.adverb
repressiveness.noun,.plural.repressivenesses
repress,
repressed, repressing,
represses.verbs
transitive use.to
cause to hold back; put down; suppress;
quell;
stifle;
compare oppress
intransitive verb use.to
take repressive action
Psychology:.to
exclude (painful or unpleasant memories, for example, from the conscious
mind
represser.noun,.plural.repressers
repressive, repressible.adjectives
repression.noun,.plural.repressions
repressively.adverb
repressibility.noun,.plural.repressibilities
the act of repressing or the state of being repressed
Psychology:.the
unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires or fears from conscious
awareness
repressionist.adjective
restrain.transitive
verb
to hold back; constrict;
to
repress; to keep under control; to confine
restrainable.adjective
restarinedly.adverb
restrainer.noun,.plural.restrainers
restrainment.noun,.plural.restrainments
restraint.noun,.plural.restraints
reverse transcriptase.noun,.plural.reverse
transcriptases
is an enzyme
carried by an
RNA-virus,
but is unlike others of the same type (RNA viruses) in that this RNA genome
makes it possible to replicate in a host (inhabits your body) as the other
nucleic
acid, DNA. It is therefore called
a retrovirus
right angle.noun,.plural.right
angles
an angle
whose sides are perpendicular
to each other; an angle of 90º, examples _| or —|
or
|_
,
etc.
raft.noun,.plural.rafts
a great number, amount or collection (we have
rafts of clothes from last year that didn't sell)
raft.noun,.plural.rafts
a flat structure, typically made of planks, logs
or barrels, that floats on water and is used for transport or as a platform
for swimmers; a flat-bottomed inflatable craft for floating or drifting
on water (shooting the rapids in a rubber raft)
rafter.noun,.plural.rafters
one who rafts down a river
(let's build a raft and go down the river)
raft, rafted,
rafting,
rafts.verbs
transitive verb use.to
convey on a raft; to make into a raft
intransitive verb use.to
travel by raft; Middle
English from Old
Norse 'raptr' meaning 'beam'
& 'rafter'
rafter.noun,.plural.rafters
one of the sloping.beams
that supports a pitched.roof
raftered.adjective
relativistic.adjective
of or relating
to relativism; in physics,
of,
relating.to.or.resulting
from speeds approaching the speed
of light: relativistic increase in mass; having
to do with or based on the theory
of relativity (relativistic mechanics, that is, how relativity.functions
in different scenarios)
relativism.noun,.plural.relativisms
a philosophic
theory that conceptions
of truth and moral.values
are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them
relative.adjective
having pertinence
or relevance;
you use relative to say that something
is true to a certain.degree,
when.compared
with other things of the same kind;
having
pertinence or relevance;
connected or related; considered in comparison with something else (the
relative quiet of the suburbs); dependent on or interconnected with something
else
relativeness.noun,.plural.relativenesses
Grammar:.relative
pronoun
relatively.adverb
in comparison with something else; in a relative
manner
relativity.noun,.plural.relativities
the quality.or.state.of.being.relative;
a state of dependence in which
the existence or significance of one entity
is solely dependent on that of another
Physics:.in
physics,
Special
relativity and General relativity
relative.noun,.plural.relatives
your relatives are the members of your family;
one related
by kinship,
common.origin,
an agreement
or marriage; something having a relation
or connection
to something else
repair, repaired,
repairing,
repairs.verbs
transitive verb use.to
restore to sound condition after damage or injury; fix (repaired the broken
watch); to set right; remedy (repair an oversight);
to renew or revitalize; to make up for or compensate for (a loss or wrong;
to make right; mommy will make the 'owee'
go away)
repair.noun,.plural.repairs
the work, act or process of repairing; an instance
of repairing general condition after use or repairing (vehicle is now in
good repair); something that has been repaired (the repair took an hour);
to put in order
repairably.adverb
repairable.adjective
repairability, repairer.nouns
repair, repaired,
repairing,
repairs.intransitive
verbs
to betake
oneself; go repair to the dining room; to go frequently or habitually (repairs
to the country every week)
repair.noun,.plural.repairs
reparation.noun,.plural.reparations
the act or process of repairing or the condition
of being repaired; the act or process of making amends;
expiation;
something done or paid to compensate
or make amends; compensation or remuneration
(the people whose financial lives have little by little over many years
been destroyed by what's called the
Fed, now receive reparation)
reparable.adjective
possible to repair (reparable
damage from the storm)
reparably.adverb
reparability.noun.plural.reparabilities
reparative.also.reparatory.adjective
tending
to repair; of,
relating.to.or.of
the nature of reparations; to fix
ruin.noun,.plural.ruins
total destruction or disintegration,
either physical, moral, social or economic; a cause of total destruction;
the act of destroying totally; a destroyed individual, object or building;
remains of something destroyed, disintegrated or decayed (studied the ruins
of ancient Greece)
ruin, ruined,
ruining,
ruins.verbs
transitive verb use.to
destroy completely; demolish;
irreparable;
to reduce to poverty or bankruptcy; to deprive
of chastity
intransitive verb use.to
fall into ruin
ruinable.adjective
ruiner.noun.plural.ruiners
ruinous.adjective
causing or apt
to cause ruin; destructive; falling to ruin; dilapidated
or decayed
ruinously.adverb
ruinousness.noun.(normally
used without being pluralized)
ruination.noun.plural.ruinations
the act
of ruining or the condition
of being
ruined; a cause of ruin
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