📖 R — The English dictionary · page 12

recall — Everyday, meaning 1: To recall means to remember something from the past.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To recall someone means to order them to come back («The ambassador was recalled»).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A recall is when a company asks people to return a product because it is faulty or unsafe.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Recall is the ability to remember («good recall»).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To recall someone can also mean to bring them back to life.↗ Example: Can you recall the name of your first teacher?↗ · Recall your times tables as fast as you can.↗ · I don't recall seeing him at school today.↗ · The company recalled the toy because small parts could break off.↗ · There was a recall on the peanut butter.↗ · As far as I can recall, the shop opens at nine.↗ · The story's hero suddenly recalled the secret password.↗ · He has amazing recall for football scores.↗ · Helios, overcome with grief, endeavoured, by every means in his power, to recall her to life.↗ · This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.↗ (Writings LAM.3.21, JPS 1917)↗

recapitulation — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A short summary that repeats the main points of something.↗

recapture — Everyday, meaning 1: To catch again a person or animal that escaped: «The zookeepers recaptured the lion.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To take back a place that an enemy had taken: «The army recaptured the town.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To bring back a feeling or memory, or to show it again: «The film recaptures the magic of childhood.».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) The act of catching or taking something again.↗ Example: The escaped parrot was recaptured in the park.↗ · The army recaptured the fort after a long siege.↗ · Police recaptured the prisoner the next day.↗ · We went back to the beach to recapture that summer feeling.↗ · The team recaptured the lead in the last minute.↗ · Ukraine recaptured many towns that had been occupied.↗

recede — Everyday, meaning 1: To move back or away; to go down from a high level: the floodwater receded.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To become smaller, weaker or less clear: the pain receded.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Of hair: to stop growing at the front of the head (a receding hairline).↗ Example: The floodwater slowly receded.↗ · The tide recedes twice a day.↗ · The glacier has receded a long way up the valley.↗ · His footsteps receded down the corridor.↗ · The pain receded after the medicine.↗ · Grandad has a receding hairline.↗ · Our last glimpse of her shows her at the window, watching them receding into the sky until they were as small as stars.↗

receipt — Everyday, meaning 1: A piece of paper (or email) from a shop that shows what you bought, how much you paid and when, used as proof.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The act of receiving something (on receipt of your letter — formal).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Receipts (plural): money received by a business.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Receipt is an old word for a recipe, the list of ingredients and steps for making a food.↗ Example: Can I have a receipt, please?↗ · Keep the receipt in case the toy breaks.↗ · The receipt shows we spent £12.40 in total.↗ · Check the receipt to see how much change you should get.↗ · You can't return the shoes without the receipt.↗ · Add up all the items on the receipt to check the total.↗

receive — Everyday, meaning 1: To receive is to get something that someone gives or sends you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To receive people is to welcome them as guests.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To receive a signal or a call is to pick it up, like a radio.↗ Example: Max receives 1 marble from Zoe.↗ · Anna received 6 letters this week.↗ · Each child receives 3 stickers.↗ · Did you receive my email?↗ · She received a prize for her poem.↗ · The radio cannot receive a signal in the tunnel.↗ · We received a warm welcome from our hosts.↗ · It is kind to say thank you when you receive a gift.↗ · "I haven't received the money yet.↗ · the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sun-rising.'↗ (Torah NUM.34.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And now cursed art thou from the ground, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.↗ (Torah GEN.4.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, He loveth the peoples, all His holy ones — they are in Thy hand; and they sit down at Thy feet, receiving of Thy words.↗ (Torah DEU.33.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Why did the knees receive me?↗ (Writings JOB.3.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.↗ (Writings 1CH.12.19, JPS 1917)↗ · To receive the discipline of wisdom, justice, and right, and equity; (Writings PRO.1.3, JPS 1917)↗

receivedst — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «receivedst» means «you received», a form of «receive».↗ e.g. To receive is to get something that someone gives or sends you.↗ Example: In Paradise, when thou wert born in the first rose, beneath the Tree of Knowledge, thou receivedst a kiss, and thy right name was given thee--thy name, Poetry.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen)

receiver — Everyday, meaning 1: A receiver is the part of a phone you hold to your ear and speak into.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A receiver is a device that picks up radio or TV signals.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (sport) A receiver is a player who catches or receives the ball, such as in American football or tennis.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (law, money) A receiver is a person put in charge of a company that cannot pay its debts.↗ Example: She picked up the receiver and said hello.↗ · The radio receiver picked up a signal.↗ · The receiver caught the ball.↗ · A satellite dish is a kind of receiver.↗ · Put the receiver back after the call.↗ · In tennis, the receiver returns the serve.↗

recent — Everyday, meaning 1: Happening or made not long ago: a recent photo, recent rain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «The most recent» means the newest or latest one.↗ Example: This is a recent photo of my dog.↗ · Recent rain has made the river high.↗ · Her most recent score was 92.↗ · In recent weeks, the days have got colder.↗ · Recent studies show children need more sleep.↗ · The town has grown in recent times.↗ · Is this a recent drawing?↗ · Our most recent trip was to the coast.↗ · The war in 1490 was spoken of as quite recent.↗ · Miller calls attention to the recent change of view in reference to several im- portant qnestions in the history of elementary mathematics.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

recently — Everyday, meaning 1: Recently means a short time ago, or in the period not long before now.↗ Example: We recently moved to a new house.↗ · Have you seen Tom recently?↗ · I've been reading a lot recently.↗ · Until recently, there was a shop on that corner.↗ · The baby has only recently learned to walk.↗ · The playground was recently painted.↗ · UNCLE Remus met a police officer recently.↗ · Quite recently, and since the completion of my translation, my attention has been drawn to a version by Isidor Kalisch, in which he has reproduced many of the valuable annotations of Meyer.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

receptacle — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) A container that holds things, such as a bin, box or bowl.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (USA, technical) An electrical socket.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) The part of a flower stalk that the flower grows from.↗ Example: Please put your rubbish in the receptacle.↗ · Each receptacle holds 4 litres of water.↗ · Pour the sand into a clean receptacle.↗ · Plug the lamp into the receptacle on the wall.↗ · The receptacle of the flower holds the petals.↗ · Recycling receptacles are by the door.↗

reception — Everyday, meaning 1: Reception is the desk or area at the entrance of a hotel, office, school or hospital where visitors are welcomed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A reception is a formal party to welcome or celebrate, such as after a wedding.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Reception is how people react to something.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Reception is how well a radio, TV or phone receives signals.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In England and Wales, Reception is the first class of primary school, for four- and five-year-olds.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Reception can also mean the act of welcoming someone when they arrive.↗ Example: Please sign in at reception.↗ · My little brother is in Reception.↗ · The wedding reception was in a big hall.↗ · There's no phone reception in the mountains.↗ · The new book got a warm reception.↗ · Ask at reception if you're lost in the hotel.↗ · The receptionist at reception answered the phone.↗ · She and her whole household therefore busied themselves in preparing everything for the reception of her lord.↗

receptionist — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who works at the front desk of an office, hotel, school or doctor's surgery, greeting people, answering the phone and making appointments.↗ Example: The receptionist gave us our room key.↗ · Ask the receptionist for an appointment.↗ · The school receptionist signed in my mum.↗ · She works as a receptionist at the dentist's.↗ · The receptionist answered the phone with a smile.↗ · Visitors must speak to the receptionist first.↗

receptor — Everyday, meaning 1: A part of the body, such as a nerve ending or a cell in the eye, nose or skin, that picks up a signal like light, smell, heat or touch and sends a message to the brain.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tiny place on a cell where a particular chemical (like a hormone or a medicine) fits, like a key in a lock.↗ Example: Your tongue has thousands of taste receptors.↗ · Receptors in your skin feel heat and cold.↗ · Light receptors in your eyes are called rods and cones.↗ · Dogs have many more smell receptors than people.↗ · The medicine fits into receptors like a key in a lock.↗ · Pain receptors warn you when you touch something hot.↗

recess — Everyday, meaning 1: In the USA, Canada and Australia, the break between lessons when children play outside; in the UK it is called "break" or "playtime".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A time when a parliament, court or other group stops working for a while.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A small space set back into a wall, like an alcove.↗ Example: We play tag at recess.↗ · Recess is twenty minutes long.↗ · It rained, so we had indoor recess.↗ · Put your snack in your bag for recess.↗ · The bookshelf fits into the recess by the fireplace.↗ · Parliament is in recess for the summer.↗ · Who is on recess duty today?↗ · But there was one recess in the wall, no larger than a bird-cage, which was the private apartment of Tinker Bell.↗ · Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?↗ (Writings JOB.38.16, JPS 1917)↗

recession — Everyday, meaning 1: A time when a country's businesses do badly, many people lose jobs and spending falls.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) The act of moving back or away, like a tide or a glacier going back.↗ Example: Many people lost their jobs in the recession.↗ · Dad's shop struggled during the recession.↗ · The country slowly came out of recession.↗ · Prices stayed the same during the recession.↗ · Scientists measured the recession of the glacier.↗ · People saved more money because of the recession.↗

recharge — Everyday, meaning 1: To recharge a battery or device means to fill it with electricity again.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To recharge (yourself) means to rest and get your energy back.↗ Example: I need to recharge my tablet.↗ · This battery takes two hours to recharge.↗ · After a busy week, we went to the beach to recharge.↗ · Plug in the robot to recharge it.↗ · Some batteries can be recharged and some cannot.↗ · A good sleep helps your body recharge.↗

rechargeable — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to be filled up with electricity again after it runs out, so it can be used many times: a rechargeable battery.↗ Example: My game controller uses rechargeable batteries.↗ · A rechargeable battery can be used hundreds of times.↗ · Plug in the rechargeable torch overnight.↗ · Rechargeable batteries make less rubbish than normal ones.↗ · Never try to recharge a battery that is not rechargeable.↗ · Electric cars have huge rechargeable batteries.↗

recipe — Everyday, meaning 1: A recipe tells you what you need (the ingredients) and what to do (the method) to cook or bake something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A recipe for something is a way that leads to it: «a recipe for success», «a recipe for disaster».↗ Example: A recipe needs 2 cups of flour for 12 cookies.↗ · She makes the recipe 3 times.↗ · The recipe uses 3/4 cup of sugar.↗ · How much flour for half the recipe?↗ · Grandma's secret recipe for apple pie is in a little book.↗ · Read the whole recipe before you start.↗ · This recipe makes 8 pancakes.↗ · Leaving your bike outside unlocked is a recipe for trouble.↗

recipient — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who receives something, such as a letter, a gift, a prize or a message.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (medicine) A person who receives blood or an organ from someone else.↗ Example: Write the recipient's address on the envelope.↗ · She was the recipient of the bravery award.↗ · Each recipient got three sweets.↗ · The email had two recipients.↗ · The money was shared among 5 recipients.↗ · The heart recipient is doing well after the operation.↗ · Check the recipient's name before you press send.↗

reciprocal — Everyday, meaning 1: Reciprocal means given and received in return; done by both people or sides for each other.↗ e.g. "a reciprocal friendship".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (maths) The reciprocal of a number is 1 divided by that number; a number times its reciprocal equals 1.↗ Example: The reciprocal of 4 is 1/4.↗ · The reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2.↗ · To divide by 1/2, multiply by its reciprocal, 2.↗ · Our schools have a reciprocal visit: we go to them, then they come to us.↗ · Friendship should be reciprocal; both people care.↗ · 5 × 1/5 = 1, so 1/5 is the reciprocal of 5.↗ · The two countries have a reciprocal agreement on health care.↗