noun

1. An increase in wages.

The boss gave me a .

1. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
2. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
3. (poker) A bet which raised the previous bet.

verb (rais, ing)

1. To cause to rise.

Raise your hand if want to say something.

1. To collect.

He raises a lot of money for charity.

1. To be brought up; to mature

Chew with your mouth shut — were you raised in a barn?

1. (poker) To respond to an initial bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.

John bet, and Julie raised requiring John to put in more money.

1. To create; to constitute (a use, or a beneficial interest in property).

There should be some consideration (i.e. payment or exchange) to raise a use.

noun (uncountable and countable: real properties)

1. : property in the form of land as opposed to personal possessions; real estate

verb to (recaptures, recaptured, recapturing)

1. to capture something that has escaped before

The warden hoped to the escaped prisoners before they reached the town.

''New engine designs permit the vehicle to the kinetic energy lost through braking

noun

1. the act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized

He looked at her for ten full minutes before dawned.

1. An awareness that something observed has been observed before
2. Acceptance as valid or true

The law was a of their civil rights.

1. Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country
2. honor, favorable note, or attention

The charity gained plenty of for its efforts, but little money.

verb

1. to make back, as an investment.
   

   He barely managed to his money, he sold out for just what he had invested.

noun

1. The act of seeking assistance or advice.

verb

1. To cover again.
2. To get better from; to recuperate.
3. To win (something) back.

noun (recover, ies)

1. The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.
2. A return to normal health.
3. A return to former status.
4. Renewed growth after a slump (economy).

noun

1. An act of recuse, recusing. To remove oneself from a decision/judgment because of a conflict of interest.

noun

1. (sport) An umpire or judge; the official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game

1. • :'The kicked Jim out of the game for fighting.'
     1. A person who settles a dispute
     2. A person who writes a letter of reference for someone
   • :'Your application, along with letters from three referees, should be received by January 31.'
     1. An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published

verb (referee, d)

1. To act as a referee.

1. • 'He has to three hockey games this weekend.'
     
   • 'She has to finish refereeing an article for Nature.'

noun

1. A member of the British Army as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve.
2. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
3. (Canadian English) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.

adjective

1. with constant frequency or pattern.
2. normal; ordinary
3. obeying rules
4. (grammar) (of a verb, plural, etc) following a set or common pattern

The verb "to walk" is regular.

The noun "mouse" has the irregular plural "mice".

1. frequent or common

He made visits to go see his mother.

1. (snowboarding): Riding with the left foot forward.
2. exemplary, Exemplary; excellent example of; utter.

a genius

a John Bull

verb

1. To join again; to unite after separation.
2. To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.

Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot. Pope.

1. To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
2. (intransitive): To answer to a reply.
3. (intransitive): (Law) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

noun

1. A reply to the answer to a previous question

noun

1. (software) A version.
2. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).

''The video store advertised that it had all the latest "releases".

1. That which is released, untied or let go.

They marked the occasion with a of butterflies.

verb (releas, ing)

1. To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
2. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.

He released his grasp on the lever.

1. To make available to the public.

They released the new product later than intended.

1. To free or liberate; to set free.

He was released after two years in prison.

1. To discharge; to

They released thousands of gallons of water into the river each month.

noun

1. the removal of stress or discomfort
2. the feeling associated with the removal of stress or dicomfort
3. something that relieves
4. the person who takes over a shift for another

Officer Schmidt can finally go home because his has arrived.

1. aid or assistance offered in time of need
2. court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress
3. tax savings.
4. a type of artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background
5. the difference made noticeable by a variation in light or color
6. (geology) the different elevations of the earth's surface

noun

1. A part or parts remain, remaining after some has/have been removed.

My son ate part of his cake and I ate the remainder.

You can have the remainder of my clothes.

1. (commerce) Items left unsold and subject to reduction in price.

I got a really good price on this shirt because it was a remainder.

1. (mathematics) The amount left over after subtracting the divisor as many times as possible from the dividend without producing a negative result. If (dividend) and d (divisor) are integers, then can always be expressed in the form n = dq + r, where q (quotation) and r () are also integers, and 0 ≤ r < d.

17 leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 3.

11 divided by 2 is 5 remainder 1.

noun (remedies)

1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
2. The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.

verb (remedies, remedying, remedied, remedied)

1. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.

1. • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
     
   • : Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to this defect,

noun

1. (music) The repetition or return of the opening material later in a composition.
2. (fencing) A renewal of a failed action, without withdrawing the arm.

verb (remis, ing)

1. To surrender all interest in a property by execute, executing a deed, to quitclaim.

noun

1. (context, chiefly, UK) terms of reference; set of responsibilities.

1. • 2000: Scientific Working Group on Good Laboratory Practice issues, Handbook: Good Laboratory Practice read on World Health Organisation website at http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/publications/pdf/glp-handbook.pdf on 14 May 2006 - WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP .
     
   • 2001: H. Meinardi et al, ILAE Commission, The treatment gap in epilepsy: the current situation and ways forward read at http://www.ilae-epilepsy.org/pubs/JAN2001.PDF on 14 May 2006 - However, this is beyond the of this particular article.
     
   • 2003: Andy Macleod, Cisco Systems, Pulling it all together - the 21st Century Campus read at http://www.ciscoeventreg.net/go/presentations/event3/a_macleod.pdf on 14 May 2006 - Next steps ... Create one IS organisation and extend to all HE activities.

verb (remit, t, ing)

1. To transmit or send, as money in payment.

1. • 2003: The Hindu, World Cup sponsors can money in forex: SC read at http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/02/01/stories/2003020104090100.htm on 14 May 2006 - The Supreme Court today allowed major sponsors, including LG Electronics India (LGEI), to foreign exchange for the tournament.

noun

1. The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
2. (weightlifting): A single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep. A group of repetitions is a set.

noun

1. an action to recover personal property unlawfully taken; the writ or procedure of such action

verb

1. (transitive) to replevy
   

   • 1998: Arranged about her are artificial flowers that appear in their varied pale and pastel colors to be faded from the sun. As if perhaps replevined from some desert grave. " Cormac McCarthy?, Cities of the Plain

verb (replev, i, ed)

1. to return goods to their rightful owner by replevin; to recover goods

noun

1. Process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied mimicked or reproduced
2. copy; reproduction.
3. In law: a response from the plantiff to the defendant's plea

noun (replies)

1. A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
2. Something given in reply.

verb (repl, i, ed)

1. To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
2. To act or gesture in response.
3. To repeat something back; to echo.

noun

1. A piece of information describing, or an account of certain events given or presented to someone.

A by the telecommunications ministry showed that the phone network has a severe capacity problem.

1. (ballistics) The loud echo sound from a gun.

1. • 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
     
   • : ...a pistol-shot, flash and , came from the hedge-side.

verb

1. (intransitive) (news) To relate details of an event or incident.

This was our correspondent reporting from Baghdad, Iraq.

1. (intransitive) (military) To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
2. (transitive): To notify of.

The nuclear plant reported the incident to the authorities.

Riots have been reported from a remote province of the country.

1. To be accountable.
   

   The financial director reports to the CEO

noun

1. What represent, represents another thing.
2. Figure, image or idea that substitute, substitutes reality.
3. Theatrical performance.

noun

1. (music) A repetition of a phrase, or a return to an earlier theme.
   1. A recurrence or resumption of an action.
   2. (fencing) A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the on guard position.

verb (repris, ed)

1. To repeat or resume an action

noun

1. (form of, short form, reservation).

verb

1. (rfv-sense) To materialize in a Virtual World

proper noun

1. A city in California (zip code 95672)

noun

1. whatever remains after something else has been removed
2. (chemistry) the substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process
3. whatever property or effects are not specifically bequeathed by a testator
4. (mathematics) a form of complex number

noun (residu, a)

1. The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.

noun

1. An issue that is before a court, has already been decided by another court, and that therefore must be dismissed by the current court.

abbreviation

1. (computing) w:Representational State Transfer, Representational State Transfer

noun

1. (legal) A person who possesses the reversion to an estate or office.

noun (wikipedia, reversion)

1. One who, or that which, reverts.
2. (italbrac, Muslim usage) A convert to Islam.

verb

1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate;to get back..
3. To change back.
4. To return; to come back.

If they attack, we will to the bunker.

1. To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
2. To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
3. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

noun

1. A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact.

I need to make a review of the book before I can understand it.

1. An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.

The newspaper review was full of praise for the play.

1. A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.

The victims demanded a full judical review of the case.

1. A stage show made up of sketches etc.

The Cambridge Footlights Review launched many Monty Python faces.

1. A survey of the available items or material.

The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.

1. A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.

The Times Literary Review is published in London.

1. A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.

The troops assembled for a review by the Queen.

1. A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.

The regulators demanded a review against NYSE practices.

verb

1. (obsolete) To see again.
2. (obsolete) To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
3. To survey; to look broadly over.

Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly historical approaches to the problem.

1. To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.

The critic reviews every new play in London.

noun

1. The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
2. Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.
3. Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature.
4. Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
5. Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
6. Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.
7. Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
8. Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc.
9. Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.

noun

1. The action of revoking.

noun

1. Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
   
2. Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
   
3. The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.

verb

1. To create or take part in a riot.

adjective

1. Of or related to the bank of a river or stream.

noun (robber, ies)

1. the act or practice of robbing.
   
2. larceny from the person or presence of another by violence or threat.

noun

1. A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.
2. A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.
3. A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.
4. The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.
5. A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.
6. A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.

verb

1. To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
2. To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.
3. To search or root in the ground, as a swine.
4. To defeat an enemy completely and force them to retreat