📖 R — The English dictionary · page 38

reunification — Everyday, meaning 1: Reunification is joining together again something that had been split, especially a country that was divided into two.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can also mean bringing a family back together after being separated.↗ Example: German reunification happened in 1990.↗ · After the Berlin Wall fell, people celebrated the coming reunification.↗ · Some people in Korea hope for reunification of North and South.↗ · Family reunification brought the refugee children back to their parents.↗ · The Irish debate about reunification has strong views on both sides.↗ · The reunification of the two school sites took a year.↗ · The film showed the joy of the family's reunification.↗

reunion — Everyday, meaning 1: A meeting of people who have not seen each other for a long time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Coming together again after being apart: «a happy reunion».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Joining two things back together, like countries or churches.↗ Example: We had a big family reunion at Grandma's farm.↗ · The lost puppy's reunion with its owner made everyone cry.↗ · My parents went to their school reunion.↗ · The soldiers had a joyful reunion with their families.↗ · After the holidays, the reunion with my friends was fun.↗ · The story ends with a tearful reunion.↗ · Their reunion was celebrated amidst the rejoicings of all the Olympian deities.↗

reunite — Everyday, meaning 1: To bring people together again, or come together again, after being apart.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To join parts or groups together again.↗ Example: The lost dog was reunited with its owner.↗ · The twins were reunited after years apart.↗ · The band reunited for one last concert.↗ · The country was reunited after the wall fell.↗ · The police reunited the child with his mum.↗ · Old friends reunited at the party.↗ · Now that they were reunited, Dorothy and her friends spent a few happy days at the Yellow Castle, where they found everything they needed to make them comfortable.↗

reusable — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to be used again, many times, instead of being thrown away.↗ Example: Bring a reusable water bottle to school.↗ · We use reusable bags at the supermarket.↗ · Reusable lunchboxes cut down on plastic.↗ · This rocket is reusable.↗ · The class made reusable wax wraps.↗ · Single-use straws are bad; reusable ones are better.↗

reuse — Everyday, meaning 1: To reuse something means to use it again instead of throwing it away, either for the same job or for a new one.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Reuse is the act of using things again.↗ Example: We reuse glass jars to keep pencils and crayons in.↗ · Reduce, reuse, recycle!↗ · Mum reuses shopping bags every week.↗ · I reused an old shoebox to make a diorama.↗ · Do not reuse a plastic bottle for drinks too many times — wash it well.↗ · Reusing things means less rubbish goes to the landfill.↗ · We drew on the back of the paper to reuse it.↗

rev — Everyday, meaning 1: To rev an engine is to make it run faster by pressing the accelerator.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Rev.» is a short written form of «Reverend», the title of a priest or minister.↗ (abbreviation in old books).↗ Example: The driver revved the engine before the race.↗ · The car revved loudly at the lights.↗ · See Fables, translated by Rev. John Brown.↗

reveal — Everyday, meaning 1: To reveal something is to show something that was hidden.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To reveal something is to tell a secret or a fact that people did not know.↗ Example: The magician pulled away the cloth to reveal a rabbit.↗ · Don't reveal your password to anyone.↗ · At the end of the book, it is revealed who the thief was.↗ · Scratch the card to reveal the prize.↗ · The X-ray revealed a broken bone.↗ · When the tide went out, it revealed rock pools.↗ · Surely morning was not already coming to hasten and reveal his disgrace!↗ · And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el, because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.↗ (Torah GEN.35.7, JPS 1917)↗ · The secret things belong unto the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.↗ (Torah DEU.29.29, JPS 1917)↗ · The Lord of All, Blessed Is He, revealed Himself to him.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee?↗ (Writings JOB.38.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And to whom hath the arm of the LORD been revealed?↗ (Prophets ISA.53.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Now the LORD had revealed unto Samuel a day before Saul came, saying: (Prophets 1SA.9.15, JPS 1917)↗

revel — Everyday, meaning 1: To revel is to take part in noisy fun such as feasting, drinking and dancing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To revel in something is to enjoy it very much.↗ Example: They arrived at a dwelling and there they drank and revelled.↗ · The Warlock drank and revelled all night.↗ · She revelled in the praise she got.↗ · But ye shall be named the priests of the LORD, men shall call you the ministers of our God; ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their splendour shall ye revel.↗ (Prophets ISA.61.6, JPS 1917)↗

revelation — Everyday, meaning 1: A surprising fact that is made known, often a secret.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The act of making something known.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Something or someone surprisingly good: «the new player was a revelation».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (church) Christians and other believers say God shows truth to people by revelation.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (Bible) Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, full of visions about the end of the world.↗ Example: The revelation that the butler was the thief shocked everyone.↗ · The new goalkeeper was a revelation this season.↗ · Learning to swim was a revelation for her.↗ · Christians believe the Bible is God's revelation.↗ · The Book of Revelation describes a new heaven and a new earth.↗ · The diary contained some surprising revelations.↗ · It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a disquieting revelation.↗

reveller — Everyday, meaning 1: A reveller is a person who joins in noisy partying, dancing and drinking.↗ Example: He attacked the riotous revellers.↗ · The reveller wished him good health.↗ · The revellers sang all night.↗

revelry — Everyday, meaning 1: Revelry is noisy, happy partying with dancing, feasting and music.↗ Example: The city was full of revelry.↗ · Comus was the god of banquets and revelry.↗ · Dancing and revelry began in the evening.↗ · Therefore now shall they go captive at the head of them that go captive, and the revelry of them that stretched themselves shall pass away.↗ (Prophets AMO.6.7, JPS 1917)↗

revenge — Everyday, meaning 1: Revenge is hurting or punishing someone because they hurt you or someone you care about.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Revenge in games and sports means beating a team or player who beat you before.↗ Example: He wanted revenge after his brother broke his model.↗ · The villain plotted revenge on the king.↗ · Getting revenge usually makes a fight bigger.↗ · She hid his shoes out of revenge.↗ · Our team got revenge by winning the rematch.↗ · The story shows that revenge does not make anyone happy.↗ · Instead of taking revenge, tell a teacher what happened.↗ · The pirate swore revenge on the captain.↗ · Ah, my revenge has gone too far.↗ · Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with disdain of soul to destroy, for the old hatred; (Prophets EZK.25.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; (Prophets EZK.25.12, JPS 1917)↗

revengeful — Everyday, meaning 1: Revengeful means wanting to pay back someone who has hurt or wronged you.↗ Example: "I am not revengeful," said the old man.↗ · Ogres are very revengeful creatures.↗ · Do not be revengeful after a quarrel.↗ · For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.↗ (Writings PSA.44.17, JPS 1917)↗

revenue — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) The money that a business or government gets in, before costs are taken away; income.↗ Example: The school fair's revenue was £500.↗ · If we sell 40 cookies at 50p each, the revenue is £20.↗ · The government gets revenue from taxes.↗ · Revenue went up when the shop opened on Sundays.↗ · The club's main revenue comes from ticket sales.↗ · Subtract costs from revenue to find the profit.↗ · Then the king was pleased, and gave him the revenue of many villages.↗ · Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.↗ (Writings PRO.16.8, JPS 1917)↗ · In the house of the righteous is much treasure; but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.↗ (Writings PRO.15.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And on great waters the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the mart of nations.↗ (Prophets ISA.23.3, JPS 1917)↗

reverberate — Everyday, meaning 1: A sound reverberates when it bounces back off walls or hills again and again, making a long echo.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An effect reverberates when it keeps spreading or being felt for a long time.↗ Example: The bell's tones reverberated in his heart.↗ · The thunder reverberated through the valley.↗ · The chariot wheels reverberated between the cliffs.↗

reverberating — Everyday, meaning 1: Of a sound: echoing again and again, loudly, filling a space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Having effects that go on spreading for a long time: the news is still reverberating.↗ Example: The thunder was reverberating round the hills.↗ · Our voices kept reverberating in the cave.↗ · The drum's boom went reverberating through the hall.↗ · The bell's reverberating sound made the birds fly up.↗ · The news is still reverberating around the school.↗ · A reverberating shout came from the tunnel.↗

revere — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) To revere someone or something is to respect and admire them very deeply.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Paul Revere was an American who rode at night in 1775 to warn that British soldiers were coming.↗ Example: Many people revere Nelson Mandela.↗ · The monks revered their teacher.↗ · She is revered as a great scientist.↗ · Christians revere Jesus as the Son of God.↗ · Paul Revere's ride is a famous story.↗ · The old tree was revered by the village.↗ · He was more especially worshipped in the Peloponnesus, though universally revered throughout Greece and in the south of Italy.↗

reverence — Everyday, meaning 1: Deep respect and honour shown to someone, such as a parent or a holy person.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) A low bow or curtsy to show respect; «to make a reverence» means to curtsy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old use) «Your Reverence» is a polite title for a priest or a bishop.↗ Example: Children should show reverence to their parents.↗ · The girl made a low reverence to the queen.↗ · The old miller said, «Won't your Reverence buy some corn?»↗ · Ye shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.19.30, JPS 1917)↗

reverend — Everyday, meaning 1: Deserving deep respect, as a wise or holy person does.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A title for a priest or minister: «the Reverend Smith» or «reverend father».↗ Example: The reverend father blessed the village.↗ · We listened to the reverend old man.↗ · The Reverend Brown gave the talk at church.↗

reverently — Everyday, meaning 1: In a respectful, worshipful way, as if in a holy place.↗ Example: She bowed reverently before the king.↗ · The children spoke reverently to the old wise woman.↗ · The crowd bowed their heads reverently.↗

reverie — Everyday, meaning 1: A daydream: a state of being lost in one's own thoughts, often pleasant.↗ Example: He was startled from his reverie by a shout.↗ · She sat in a reverie, watching the clouds.↗ · I was lost in reverie all afternoon.↗

revers — Everyday, meaning 1: A revers: the part of a coat or jacket collar or cuff that is turned back so the inside shows, like a lapel (a fashion and sewing word).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is often a misspelling of «reverse» (to go backwards; the opposite; the back side).↗ Example: The jacket had wide revers of black silk.↗ · The tailor pressed the revers of the coat.↗ · Did you mean «reverse»?↗ Count in reverse: 10, 9, 8…↗ · Put the numbers in reverse order.↗ · The coat's revers were sewn with gold thread.↗ · Dad put the car in reverse to back out of the drive.↗ · 7:1 Thus for instance, they imagined that the name of Jehovah, יהוי, is by reversing the alphabet; מצפץ (mzpz); mem signifies the letter jod, zaddi, the letter he, and pe, the letter wav.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

reversal — Everyday, meaning 1: A reversal is a change to the opposite direction, order or result.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A reversal can be a sudden change of fortune, often from good to bad.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (law) A reversal is when a decision is changed by a higher authority.↗ Example: The team made an amazing reversal in the second half.↗ · In the play there was a role reversal: the children were in charge and the parents obeyed.↗ · The new rule was a reversal of the old one.↗ · The reversal of 47 is 74.↗ · Freezing melted ice again is a reversal of the change.↗ · (law) The higher court ordered a reversal of the decision.↗ · Losing his job was a sad reversal of fortune.↗ · The Kabalistic principles involved in the reversal of Hebrew letters, and their substitution by others, on definite schemes, should also be studied and borne in mind.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗