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- receptionist noun (a receptionist, receptionists)
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… - receptor noun (a receptor, receptors)
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… - recess noun (recess, recesses)
In the USA, Canada and Australia, the break between lessons when children play outside; in the UK it is called "break" or "playtime". - recession noun (a recession, recessions)
A time when a country's businesses do badly, many people lose jobs and spending falls. - recharge verb (recharge, recharges, recharged, recharging); noun (a recharge)
To recharge a battery or device means to fill it with electricity again. - rechargeable adjective (rechargeable); noun (a rechargeable, rechargeables — informal, a rechargeable battery)
1) Able to be filled up with electricity again after it runs out, so it can be used many times: a rechargeable battery. - recipe noun (recipe, recipes)
A recipe tells you what you need (the ingredients) and what to do (the method) to cook or bake something. - recipient noun (a recipient, recipients)
A person who receives something, such as a letter, a gift, a prize or a message. - reciprocal adjective; noun (a reciprocal, reciprocals – in maths)
Reciprocal means given and received in return; done by both people or sides for each other: "a reciprocal friendship". - reciprocate verb (reciprocate, reciprocates, reciprocated, reciprocating)
To reciprocate is to give or do the same thing back to someone who gave or did it to you. - recital noun (a recital, recitals)
A performance of music, dance or poetry, often by one person or by pupils, for an audience. - recitation noun (a recitation, recitations)
A recitation is saying a poem, speech or piece of writing aloud from memory, often in front of an audience. - recite verb (recite, recites, recited, reciting)
To recite is to say a poem, story or piece of writing aloud from memory. - reckless adjective (reckless, more reckless, most reckless)
Doing dangerous things without caring or thinking about what could go wrong. - recklessly adverb (more recklessly, most recklessly)
In a careless way, without thinking about danger or the harm that might follow. - reckon verb (reckon, reckons, reckoned, reckoning)
1) (informal, especially UK, Australia, NZ, Ireland) To think or believe; to have an opinion. 2) To guess or estimate a number. 3)… - reclaimed verb form (reclaim, reclaims, reclaimed, reclaiming); adjective (reclaimed)
Past of «reclaim»: got something back that was yours. - recline verb (reclines, reclined, reclining)
To lean or lie back in a relaxed way, often resting on something. - recliner noun (a recliner, recliners)
A recliner is a soft armchair whose back can lean back and whose footrest can come up, so you can lie back comfortably. - reclining adjective; verb form (recline, reclines, reclined, reclining)
Leaning or lying back in a relaxed way: «a reclining figure». - recluse noun (a recluse, recluses)
1) A person who lives alone and avoids being with other people. 2) A brown recluse is a kind of poisonous spider in the USA. - recognisable adjective (recognisable; US recognizable)
Recognisable means easy to know or identify because you have seen or heard it before. - recognise verb (recognise, recognises, recognised, recognising)
To recognise someone or something is to know who or what they are because you have seen, heard or met them before. - recognition noun (recognition — usually uncountable)
Recognition is knowing someone or something because you have seen or heard it before. - recognize verb (recognizes, recognized, recognizing)
To know someone or something again because you have seen, heard or met it before. - recognized verb, past and past participle of «recognize» (recognize, recognizes, recognized, recognizing); adjective (recognized); UK spelling usually recognised
Knew who someone was or what something was because you had seen or heard it before. - recollect verb (recollect, recollects, recollected, recollecting)
To remember something from the past, often with effort: «I don't recollect his name.». - recollection noun (a recollection, recollections)
1) A memory of something from the past. 2) (uncountable) The ability to remember: «I have no recollection of it.» 3) (church) Calm, quiet… - recommence verb (recommence, recommences, recommenced, recommencing)
1) (formal) To begin again after a stop or break. 2) To start doing something again. - recommend verb (recommend, recommends, recommended, recommending)
To recommend something is to say it is good and that someone should try it, like a book or a film. - recommendation noun (a recommendation, recommendations; recommendation, uncountable)
A recommendation is advice about what someone should do, as in «the doctor's recommendation is rest». - recompense noun (recompense — uncountable); verb (recompense, recompenses, recompensed, recompensing)
Recompense is money or something else given to make up for harm, loss or trouble someone has suffered. - reconcile verb (reconcile, reconciles, reconciled, reconciling); noun «reconciliation»
To make friends again after a quarrel: «The two friends were reconciled». - reconciliation noun (reconciliation, reconciliations)
Making friends again after an argument or fight. - reconnoitre verb (reconnoitres, reconnoitred, reconnoitring)
To go and look carefully at an area before doing anything, to find out what is there. - reconsider verb (reconsider, reconsiders, reconsidered, reconsidering)
1) To think again about a decision or opinion, possibly to change it. 2) (formal) To look again at a case or plan. - reconstitute verb (reconstitute, reconstitutes, reconstituted, reconstituting)
To make dried food or powder into its original form again by adding water: reconstituted milk or orange juice. - reconstructed verb form (past tense and past participle of reconstruct: reconstruct, reconstructs, reconstructed, reconstructing); adjective (a reconstructed village)
Reconstructed means built again after being damaged or destroyed. - reconstruction noun (a reconstruction, reconstructions; also uncountable: reconstruction)
Reconstruction is building something again after it was damaged or destroyed. - reconvert verb (reconvert, reconverts, reconverted, reconverting)
To change something back into what it was before, or into another form again. - record noun (a record, records); verb (record, records, recorded, recording); adjective (record — a record score)
A record is a written or saved note of facts, so you can look at it later. - recorder noun (a recorder, recorders)
A recorder is a simple wooden or plastic wind instrument with holes, which you blow into and play by covering the holes with your fingers. - recording noun (a recording, recordings; recording, uncountable); verb form of «record» (recording)
A recording is sound or pictures that have been stored so they can be played again, such as a song, video or voice message. - recount verb (recount, recounts, recounted, recounting); noun (a recount, recounts)
verb To tell a story or describe events in order: «He recounted his adventure.». - recourse noun (recourse — usually uncountable)
Recourse is a way of getting help or a solution when you are in trouble. - recover verb (recover, recovers, recovered, recovering); noun recovery
To recover means to get well again after an illness or injury. - recoverable adjective (recoverable; more recoverable, most recoverable)
Able to be got back after being lost, deleted or stolen. - recovery noun (recovery; a recovery, recoveries)
Recovery is getting better after being ill, hurt or upset. - recreate verb (recreate, recreates, recreated, recreating)
To make something again so that it is like it was before. - recreation noun (recreation, recreations)
Things people do for fun and relaxation in their free time, like sport, games and hobbies. - recreational adjective (recreational)
Done for fun, relaxing and enjoyment in your free time, not for work: recreational sport. - recruit verb (recruit, recruits, recruited, recruiting); noun (a recruit, recruits)
verb To find and get new people to join a group, team, army or company. - rectangle noun (rectangle, rectangles)
A rectangle is a flat shape with four straight sides and four square corners (right angles). - rectangular adjective (rectangular)
Rectangular means shaped like a rectangle, with four straight sides and square corners. - rectified verb, past form of rectify (rectify, rectifies, rectified, rectifying)
Put right; corrected: The mistake was rectified. - rectilinear adjective (rectilinear)
1) Made of straight lines. 2) Moving in a straight line. 3) (maths) A rectilinear shape has only straight sides, often with right angles… - rector noun (a rector, rectors)
A rector is a priest in charge of a parish in the Church of England, the Episcopal Church or the Catholic Church. - recumbent adjective (recumbent); noun (a recumbent, recumbents — a recumbent bicycle)
Lying down, especially on your back or leaning back. - recuperation noun (recuperation; uncountable)
Getting better and stronger after an illness, injury or tiring time. - recur verb (recur, recurs, recurred, recurring)
To recur means to happen again, often more than once. - recurrence noun (a recurrence, recurrences)
A recurrence is when something happens again, especially something bad like an illness or a problem. - recurrent adjective (recurrent)
Happening again and again, many times: a recurrent dream. - recurring adjective (recurring); verb (present participle of recur: recur, recurs, recurred, recurring)
1) Happening again and again. 2) (maths, UK) A decimal where a digit or group of digits repeats forever, like 0.333… - recyclable adjective (recyclable); noun (recyclables — things that can be recycled)
1) Recyclable means able to be recycled — collected and made into new things instead of being thrown away. - recycle verb (recycle, recycles, recycled, recycling)
1) To recycle something is to collect it after use so it can be broken down and made into something new, like turning old bottles into new… - recycling noun (recycling — uncountable); verb form (-ing of recycle: recycling)
Recycling is the process of collecting used things like paper, glass, metal and plastic and making them into new things. - red adjective (red, redder, reddest); noun (red, reds)
Red is the color of strawberries, blood and fire trucks. - redbreast noun (redbreasts)
Another name for a robin, a small bird with a red chest. - redden verb (redden, reddens, reddened, reddening)
1) To become red or redder. 2) (of a person's face) To blush because you are embarrassed, shy or angry. 3) To make something red. 4)… - reddened verb form (redden, reddens, reddened, reddening); adjective (reddened)
Past of «redden»: became red or made something red. - reddish adjective (reddish)
1) Reddish means a little red, or nearly red, but not completely («reddish-brown hair»). - redecorate verb (redecorate, redecorates, redecorated, redecorating)
1) To redecorate a room or house is to make it look new again by painting walls, putting up new wallpaper or changing the curtains and… - redeem verb (redeems, redeemed, redeeming)
1) To get something back by paying for it or by giving something in return. 2) To save someone from wrong-doing or from a bad fate. - redeemable adjective (redeemable)
Able to be exchanged for money, goods or a prize: «This voucher is redeemable in any store.». - redeemed verb, past form of «redeem» (redeem, redeems, redeemed, redeeming); adjective (redeemed)
Exchanged a voucher, coupon or points for something. - redeployment noun (redeployment, redeployments) — formal
1) Moving people, soldiers, workers or equipment to a different place or job where they are needed more. - redeposit verb (redeposit, redeposits, redeposited, redepositing); noun (a redeposit, redeposits)
1) To put money back into a bank or account. 2) (science) To drop or lay down material, like sand or mud, again in a new place. 3) (noun)… - redesign verb (redesign, redesigns, redesigned, redesigning); noun (a redesign, redesigns)
To redesign something is to design it again, changing its look, shape or the way it works to make it better. - redhead noun (a redhead, redheads)
1) A person with red or orange-red hair. 2) The name of some birds or animals with red heads, such as the redhead duck in North America. - rediscovery noun (a rediscovery, rediscoveries)
Finding something again that had been lost, forgotten or hidden. - redness noun (redness — uncountable)
1) Redness is the state of being red. 2) Redness of the skin is a red patch that can mean it is sore, hot, sunburnt or infected. - redo verb (redo, redoes, redid, redone, redoing); noun (a redo, redos — informal)
To redo something is to do it again, usually because it was wrong or not good enough. - redouble verb (redouble, redoubles, redoubled, redoubling)
To make an effort, a feeling or an action much stronger or greater. - redoubtable adjective (more redoubtable, most redoubtable)
(old use) Fearsome and powerful, so that people feel respect or fear for them. - redraft verb (redraft, redrafts, redrafted, redrafting); noun (a redraft, redrafts)
1) To write a piece of writing again, making it better. 2) (noun) A new, improved version of a piece of writing. - redress verb (redresses, redressed, redressing); noun (redresses)
To put right an unfair or harmful state of things. - redshift noun (redshift — uncountable)
1) (science) Redshift is when light from a star or galaxy moving away from us is stretched so it looks redder, shifting towards the red… - redskin noun (redskins)
(old and offensive) An old, rude name for a Native American; it must not be used now. - reduce verb (reduce, reduces, reduced, reducing)
To reduce something is to make it smaller in size, amount, number or strength. - reduction noun (a reduction, reductions)
A reduction is making something smaller or less, or the amount by which it is made smaller. - redundancy noun (redundancy, a redundancy, redundancies)
1) (work, UK, Ireland, Australia) Redundancy is losing your job because the employer no longer needs that job — for example when a factory… - redundant adjective (redundant)
Redundant means not needed any more, because there is already enough or it is repeated. - redwood noun (a redwood, redwoods; redwood — the wood, uncountable)
A very tall evergreen tree with reddish bark, found mainly in California; coast redwoods are the tallest trees on Earth. - reed noun (a reed, reeds)
A reed is a tall, thin, grass-like plant with a hollow stem that grows in or near water. - reedy adjective (reedier, reediest)
1) Full of reeds, the tall grass-like plants that grow in water. 2) Of a voice, thin and high. - reef noun (a reef, reefs); verb (reef, reefs, reefed, reefing — sailing)
A reef is a long ridge of rock, sand or coral just under or at the surface of the sea. - reek verb (reek, reeks, reeked, reeking); noun (a reek — singular)
1) (verb) To have a very strong, unpleasant smell. 2) (noun) A strong, bad smell. 3) (figurative) To strongly suggest something bad: "This… - reel noun (a reel, reels); verb (reel, reels, reeled, reeling)
A round thing that thread, film, fishing line or wire is wound on. - ref noun (a ref, refs) — informal short form; verb (ref, refs, reffed, reffing — informal)
A ref is a referee, the official who makes sure players follow the rules in games like football, rugby, boxing and basketball. - refectory noun (a refectory, refectories)
A large dining hall, especially in a monastery, convent, college or old school.
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