Re

//ɹiː// name, noun, prep, symbol, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Ra. Egyptian, alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    Reinsurance.

    "Swiss Re"

  3. 3
    A municipality of Vestfold, Norway.
  4. 4
    Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  5. 5
    The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India.
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  1. 6
    Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. abbreviation, alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale. uncountable
  2. 2
    Clipping of rematch. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang

    "gg, no re'"

  3. 3
    Abbreviation of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization wordnet
  5. 5
    Clipping of reinsurance, used in the branding of reinsurance company names. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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  1. 6
    Abbreviation of religious education. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum wordnet
  3. 8
    Clipping of age regressor. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
  4. 9
    Abbreviation of rare earth. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    Initialism of response element. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  6. 11
    Abbreviation of real estate. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  7. 12
    Abbreviation of renewable energy. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  8. 13
    Abbreviation of run-time environment. abbreviation, alt-of, countable
  9. 14
    Abbreviation of reverse engineering. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
Preposition
  1. 1
    About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.

    "Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254"

  2. 2
    Regarding, re.
Symbol
  1. 1
    rupee
  2. 2
    Earth radius: the radius of planet Earth, regarded as a unit of measurement.
  3. 3
    The radius of the Earth specifically.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).

Etymology 2

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English re (“second degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian re in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin resonāre (“made to resound”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Etymology 3

From the prefix re-.

Etymology 4

Meaning borrowed from Egyptian r:a-ra (rꜥ, “sun, Ra”), with the form of the word borrowed from Coptic ⲣⲏ (rē, “sun”).

Etymology 5

Clipping of reinsurance.

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