📖 R — The English dictionary · page 10

realistic — Everyday, meaning 1: Sensible about what can really happen or be done.↗ e.g. "a realistic plan".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Looking or seeming very like the real thing.↗ e.g. "a realistic painting of a horse."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Realistic can also describe a view that takes things as they actually are, without imagining or magic.↗ Example: Be realistic: we cannot paint the whole house today.↗ · The toy dinosaur looks very realistic.↗ · Set yourself a realistic goal for reading each week.↗ · Check whether your answer is realistic.↗ · Realistic fiction is about things that could really happen.↗ · Her drawing of the cat is so realistic.↗ · It is not realistic to walk to London from here.↗ · Even such a minute touch as the terraces on the hill have their bearing, I believe, on Mr. MacRitchie's “realistic” views of Faerie.↗

realistically — Everyday, meaning 1: Realistically means thinking about what can really happen, not wishing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Realistically means in a way that looks real or true to life.↗ Example: Realistically, we can't visit every museum in one day.↗ · The painting shows the dog realistically.↗ · Realistically, how much can we save each week?↗ · The film shows life in the war realistically.↗ · Realistically, it will take two hours.↗ · Realistically, we need more players to win.↗

reality — Everyday, meaning 1: Reality is what really exists or happens, not what is imagined or pretend.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A reality is a fact or situation you have to face: «the reality of living on a farm».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Virtual reality (VR) is a computer world you can see with a headset.↗ Example: In reality, the monster was just a shadow.↗ · Her dream of a puppy became a reality.↗ · It's time to face reality: the holidays are over.↗ · Virtual reality lets you explore space.↗ · The film mixes fantasy and reality.↗ · Reality TV shows aren't always real.↗ · The reality of camping was colder than we thought.↗ · (informal) That was a real reality check.↗ · But how does the sea look in reality?↗ · He created a reality out of nothing, called the nonentity into existence and hewed, as it were, colossal pillars from intangible air.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · This way of thinking about language imbues the Hebrew root itself with a certain metaphysical reality, an entity from which more concrete instantions of individual words may ontologically descend and ultimately crystallize into concrete speech or material reality.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

realize — Everyday, meaning 1: To realize something is to understand clearly that it is true.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To realize a hope or wish is to make it come true.↗ Example: I realize I was wrong.↗ · She did not realize the child was gone.↗ · At last he realized how long the road was.↗

realized — Everyday, meaning 1: Understood clearly, or made a wish or hope come true.↗ Example: He fully realized the truth of this.↗ · For the first time she realized how far she had walked.↗ · Her dream was realized when the king gave her a home.↗

really — Everyday, meaning 1: In fact, truly: «Is it really true?».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very: «really hot».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Used to show surprise or doubt: «Really?».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Used to make a statement softer or stronger: «I don't really like it.».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (casual) «Really?!» or «srsly» (texting) is annoyed surprise: you can't be serious.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (casual, sarcastic) «Oh, really?» means I don't believe you; «Really, Tom?» means I am disappointed in you.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual, UK) «Not really» is a polite soft no.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (formal) «Genuinely», «indeed», «in fact», «exceedingly» and «considerably» are stiff words for really.↗ Example: It's really cold today.↗ · Did you really see a whale?↗ · «I won!»↗ «Really?»↗ · I don't really like broccoli.↗ · She really wants a puppy.↗ · What really happened?↗ · That was really kind of you.↗ · The sun doesn't really move; the Earth spins.↗ · srsly?? only 2 cookies left out of 12?↗ (casual)↗ · «I did my homework.»↗ «Oh, really?↗ Show me.»↗ (sarcastic)↗ · Really?↗ You broke it again?↗ Bloody hell.↗ (rough)↗ · The second quantity is considerably greater than the first; determine by how much.↗ (formal exam)↗ · I really cannot squeeze myself through!”↗ · AL ChI H OULMIM; ''the Living God of Ages," here the word God really is in the singular.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The whole (arly history of Pythagoreanism is therefore conjectural, and all we really know of the school is what wc are told by Aristotle".↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · In spite of the numerous works written on Hebrew orthography since the beginning of the tenth century, there is not one which may be considered as really based on the Hebrew.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

realm — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, old) A country ruled by a king or queen; a kingdom.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An area of knowledge, activity or interest: «the realm of science».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (stories) A world or land, often magical: «the realm of the fairies».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (church) Christians speak of «the heavenly realm».↗ Example: The king ruled his realm wisely.↗ · The story takes place in a magical realm under the sea.↗ · Flying cars are not in the realm of science fiction any more.↗ · Time travel is outside the realm of possibility.↗ · The knights swore to protect the realm.↗ · In the realm of sport, she is a star.↗ · The fair Princess, Marya Morevna, carried him off into her own realm.↗ · So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him rest round about.↗ (Writings 2CH.20.30, JPS 1917)↗ · In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; (Writings DAN.9.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the presidents and the satraps, because a surpassing spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.↗ (Writings DAN.6.4, JPS 1917)↗

realty — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Land and buildings; real estate.↗

reap — Everyday, meaning 1: To cut and gather a crop, like wheat, from a field: «Farmers reap the corn in late summer.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To get something good (or bad) as a result of what you have done: «reap the rewards», «reap the benefits».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Bible) «You reap what you sow»: what you do now decides what will happen to you later (Galatians 6:7).↗ Example: In the past, whole families helped reap the wheat by hand.↗ · If you practise every day, you will reap the rewards.↗ · You reap what you sow, so be kind.↗ · The farmers reaped a good harvest this year.↗ · The school reaped the benefits of its new library.↗ · The Grim Reaper is a made-up figure of death carrying a scythe.↗ · "This wheat is now ready for reaping," said the Farmer.↗ · And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest.↗ (Torah LEV.19.9, JPS 1917)↗ · A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you; ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.↗ (Torah LEV.25.11, JPS 1917)↗ · That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.↗ (Torah LEV.25.5, JPS 1917)↗ · They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.↗ (Writings PSA.126.5, JPS 1917)↗ · According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow mischief, reap the same.↗ (Writings JOB.4.8, JPS 1917)↗ · He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity; and the rod of his wrath shall fail.↗ (Writings PRO.22.8, JPS 1917)↗

reaper — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who cuts and gathers a crop such as wheat (old-fashioned).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A machine that cuts grain.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «The Grim Reaper» is a picture of death as a skeleton in a black cloak carrying a scythe.↗ Example: The reapers worked in the field all day.↗ · The old reaper was pulled by horses.↗ · A reaping machine cuts wheat faster than people.↗ · The Grim Reaper carries a scythe.↗ · Harvest songs were sung by the reapers.↗ · The Bible says that whatever we sow, we will reap.↗ · The Master Cat, who still went on before, met with some reapers, and said to them:↗ · Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.↗ (Writings PSA.129.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers: 'Whose damsel is this?'↗ (Writings RUT.2.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.↗ (Prophets 2KI.4.18, JPS 1917)↗

reapest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «reapest» means «you reap», a form of «reap»: To cut and gather a crop, like wheat, from a field: «Farmers reap the corn in late summer.».↗

reappear — Everyday, meaning 1: To reappear is to appear again or come back into view after being gone.↗ Example: The Sun reappeared after the clouds.↗ · The cat disappeared and reappeared an hour later.↗ · The magician made the coin reappear.↗ · The rash reappeared after a week.↗ · Old toys sometimes reappear in the attic.↗ · The stars reappeared when the clouds moved away.↗ · Now and again he disappeared only to reappear once more.↗

rear — Everyday, meaning 1: The back part of something.↗ e.g. "the rear of the bus".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, at the back.↗ e.g. "the rear door", "rear lights".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To rear children or animals means to look after them until they are grown up.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: When a horse rears, it stands up on its back legs.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To rear something can also mean to lift it up high and build it in place.↗ Example: Children should sit in the rear seat of the car.↗ · We got off by the rear door of the bus.↗ · My bike has a red rear light.↗ · The teacher walked at the rear of the line.↗ · The farmer rears sheep and goats.↗ · The horse reared up when it saw the snake.↗ · Swans rear their young on the river.↗ · The marble block was reared in its place.↗ · 'On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.↗ (Torah EXO.40.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath been shown thee in the mount.↗ (Torah EXO.26.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court.↗ (Torah EXO.40.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Leave thy fatherless children, I will rear them, and let thy widows trust in Me.↗ (Prophets JER.49.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.↗ (Prophets 1KI.16.32, JPS 1917)↗ · And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall rear a young cow, and two sheep; (Prophets ISA.7.21, JPS 1917)↗

rearrange — Everyday, meaning 1: To change the order or position of things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To change the time or date of a meeting or event.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) To change the order of numbers or letters, or to change a formula so a different letter is on its own.↗ Example: Rearrange the letters of «listen» to make «silent».↗ · We rearranged the desks into groups.↗ · The match was rearranged for next Saturday.↗ · Can you rearrange 3, 1, 2 to make the biggest number?↗ 321.↗ · Mum rearranged the furniture in the living room.↗ · Rearrange the formula so that x is on its own.↗ · The doctor's appointment had to be rearranged.↗ · As a matter of fact, he himself abandons the division of the letters into three parts, and rearranges them in a twofold division, one of ten and one of twelve letters.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

rearrangement — Everyday, meaning 1: Changing the order, position or plan of things: «a rearrangement of the furniture».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A changed plan, time or date: «a rearrangement of the match».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (music) A new version of a piece of music for different instruments or voices.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths, science) Putting the parts of a number, formula or molecule in a different order; in maths, a different order of the same items.↗ Example: The classroom rearrangement gave us more space for reading.↗ · After the rearrangement, the match is on Tuesday.↗ · The band played a rock rearrangement of an old carol.↗ · «Listen» and «silent» are rearrangements of the same letters.↗ · Rearrangement of the formula helps us find the missing value.↗ · There are six rearrangements of the letters A, B and C.↗

rearward — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The back part of a group, especially an army on the march.↗ Example: And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.↗ (Torah NUM.10.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.↗ (Prophets 1SA.29.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And the armed men went before the priests that blew the horns, and the rearward went after the ark, the priests blowing with the horns continually.↗ (Prophets JOS.6.9, JPS 1917)↗ · For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rearward.↗ (Prophets ISA.52.12, JPS 1917)↗