1: being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is...

1: property consisting of houses and land [syn: {real property}, {realty}]

1: a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land; "in England they call a realtor a land agent" [syn: {realtor}, {real estate broker}, {estate agent}, {land agent}, {house agent}]

1: a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land; "in England they call a realtor a land agent" [syn: {realtor}, {real estate agent}, {estate agent}, {land agent}, {house agent}]

1: an investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate asssets; shares can be bought and sold in the stock market [syn: {REIT}]

1: a loan on real estate that is usually secured by a mortgage [syn: {mortgage loan}]

1: a version of the GNP that has been adjusted for the effects of inflation [syn: {real gross national product}]

1: a version of the GNP that has been adjusted for the effects of inflation [syn: {real GNP}]

1: a radical terrorist group that broke away in 1997 when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire; has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement [syn: {Real Iris...

1: a radical terrorist group that broke away in 1997 when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire; has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement [syn: {Real IRA}...

1: the practical world as opposed to the academic world; "a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world" [syn: {real world}]

1: a matrix whose elements are all real numbers

1: informal usage attributing authenticity [syn: {real thing}, {real stuff}]

1: any rational or irrational number [syn: {real}]

1: (Christianity) the Christian doctrine that the body of Christ is actually present in the Eucharist

1: property consisting of houses and land [syn: {real estate}, {realty}]

1: the main memory in a virtual memory system

1: informal usage attributing authenticity [syn: {real McCoy}, {real thing}]

1: an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court [syn: {royal tennis}, {court tennis}]

1: informal usage attributing authenticity [syn: {real McCoy}, {real stuff}]

1: the actual time that it takes a process to occur; "information is updated in real time" 2: (computer science) the time it takes for a process under computer control to occur

1: the practical world as opposed to the academic world; "a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world" [syn: {real life}]

1: the business of selling real estate

1: of or relating to computer systems that update information at the same rate they receive information

1: data processing fast enough to keep up with an outside process [syn: {real-time processing}]

1: data processing fast enough to keep up with an outside process [syn: {real-time operation}]

{real}

1: a rare soft orange mineral consisting of arsenic sulphide; an important ore of arsenic

1: align anew or better; "The surgeon realigned my jaw after the accident" [syn: {realine}]

1: align anew or better; "The surgeon realigned my jaw after the accident" [syn: {realign}]

1: a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer [syn: {realization}] 2: coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of...

1: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; ...

1: successfully completed or brought to an end; "his mission accomplished he took a vacation"; "the completed project"; "the joy of a realized ambition overcame him" [syn: {accomplished}, {completed},...

1: the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth [syn: {pragmatism}] 2: (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical object continue to exist when n...

1: a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them 2: a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly 3: a painte...

1: aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are; "a realistic description"; "a realistic view of the possibilities"; "a realistic appraisal of our chances"; "the actors tried to create a...

1: in a realistic manner; "let's look at the situation realistically" [ant: {unrealistically}] 2: in a realistic manner; "the figure was realistically painted"

1: all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; "his world was shattered"; "we live in different worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were" [syn: {worl...

1: (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the ego; the principle that as a child grows it becomes aware of the real environment and the need to accommodate to it [ant: {pleasure principle}]

1: capable of being realized; "realizable benefits of the plan" 2: capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do [syn: {accomplishable}, {achievable}, {doable}]

1: coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently...

1: be fully aware or cognizant of [syn: {recognize}, {recognise}, {realise}, {agnize}, {agnise}] 2: perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she rea...

1: successfully completed or brought to an end; "his mission accomplished he took a vacation"; "the completed project"; "the joy of a realized ambition overcame him" [syn: {accomplished}, {completed},...

1: allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" [syn: {reapportion}]

1: a share that has been allocated again 2: a new apportionment (especially a reallotment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) [syn: {reallotment}, {reapportionm...

1: alot again; "They were realloted additional farm land"

1: a new apportionment (especially a reallotment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) [syn: {reapportionment}, {reallocation}]

1: in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" [syn: {truly}, {genuinely}] 2: in actual fact; "to be nominal...

1: a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: {kingdom}, {land}] 2: a knowledge domain ...

1: the state of being actual or real; "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him" [syn: {reality}, {realism}] [ant: {unreality}]

1: politics based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations [syn: {practical politics}]

1: a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land; "in England they call a realtor a land agent" [syn: {real estate broker}, {real estate agent}, {estate agent}, {land agent}, {hou...

1: property consisting of houses and land [syn: {real property}, {real estate}]

1: a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams" 2: a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires v 1: squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oran...

1: a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit [syn: {juicer}, {juice reamer}] 2: a drill that is used to shape or enlarge holes

1: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: {animate}, {recreate}, {revive}, {renovate}, {repair}, {quicken},...

1: given fresh life or vigor or spirit; "stirred by revived hopes" [syn: {revived}]

1: gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn: {harvest}, {glean}] 2: get or derive; "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association" [syn: {draw}]

1: an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle [syn: {sickle}, {reaping hook}]

1: someone who helps to gather the harvest [syn: {harvester}] 2: Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe [syn: {Grim Reaper}] 3: farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fiel...

1: a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves [syn: {binder}]

1: an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle [syn: {sickle}, {reap hook}]

1: appear again; "The sores reappeared on her body"; "Her husband reappeared after having left her years ago" [syn: {re-emerge}]

1: the event of something appearing again; "the reappearance of Halley's comet" 2: the act of someone appearing again; "his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited" [syn: {return}]

1: allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" [syn: {reallocate}]

1: a new apportionment (especially a reallotment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) [syn: {reallotment}, {reallocation}]

1: a new appraisal or evaluation [syn: {revaluation}, {review}, {reassessment}]

1: appraise anew; "Homes in our town are reappraised every five years and taxes are increased accordingly"

1: located in or toward the back or rear; "the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward side" [syn: {rear(a)}, {rearward(a)}] n 1: the back of a military formation or process...

1: an admiral junior to a vice admiral

1: rear backwards on its hindlegs; "the frightened horse reared back" 2: start with anger or resentment or in protest

1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: {buttocks}, {nates}, {arse}, {butt}, {backside},...

1: lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle [syn: {taillight}, {tail lamp}, {rear light}]

1: lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle [syn: {taillight}, {tail lamp}, {rear lamp}]

1: opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded [syn: {breech}, {rear of tube}]

1: opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded [syn: {breech}, {rear of barrel}]

1: car window that allows vision out of the back of the car

1: collide with the rear end of; "The car rear-ended me"

1: a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body

1: rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile; "a lion rampant" [syn: {rampant(ip)}] n 1: the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a chi...

1: arm again; "After the war, the defeated country was not rearmed by the victors" 2: arm anew; "After the war, the defeated country was not allowed to rearm" [syn: {re-arm}]

1: the act of arming again; "he opposed the rearmament of Japan after World War II"

{rearmouse}

1: located farthest to the rear [syn: {backmost}, {hindermost}, {hindmost}]

1: put into a new order or arrangement; "Please rearrange these files"; "rearrange the furniture in my room"

1: changing an arrangement

1: car mirror that reflects the view out of the rear window

1: directed or moving toward the rear; "a rearward glance"; "a rearward movement" [syn: {reverse}] 2: located in or toward the back or rear; "the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on ...

1: at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: {back}, {backward}, {backwards}, {rearward}] [ant: {f...

1: a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration" [syn: {ground}] 2: an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a st...

1: decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" [syn: {reason}, {conclude}]

1: showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person" [syn: {sensible}] [ant: {unreasonable}] 2: not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices" [syn: {fair},...

1: the care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances; the standard for determining legal duty [syn: {due care}, {ordinary care}]

1: the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions" [syn: {rationality}, {reason}] 2: goodnes...

1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers"; "they lived comfortably within reason" [syn: {moderately}, {within reason}, {so...

1: reflects weight of sound argument or evidence; "a sound argument" [syn: {sound}, {well-grounded}] 2: resulting from careful thought; "the paper was well thought out" [syn: {considered}, {well thoug...

1: someone who reasons logically [syn: {ratiocinator}]

1: endowed with the capacity to reason [syn: {intelligent}, {reasoning(a)}, {thinking(a)}] n : thinking that is coherent and logical [syn: {logical thinking}, {abstract thought}]

1: the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence [syn: {regress}]

1: analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives [syn: {elimination}]

1: not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn: {mindless}, {senseless}] 2: not endowed with the capacity to reason; "a reasonless brute" 3: ha...

1: assail again; "Her old fears reassailed her"

1: assemble once again, after taking something apart

1: assembling again [syn: {refabrication}]

1: strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account" [syn: {confirm}]

1: renewed affirmation [syn: {reaffirmation}]

1: revise or renew one's assessment [syn: {reevaluate}]

1: a new appraisal or evaluation [syn: {reappraisal}, {revaluation}, {review}]

1: transfer somebody to a different position or location of work [syn: {transfer}]

1: assignment to a different duty

1: the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence

1: cause to feel sure; give reassurance to; "The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe" [syn: {assure}] [ant: {worry}] 2: give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure ...

1: having confidence restored; freed from anxiety; "reassured by her praise he pressed on"

1: restoring confidence and relieving anxiety; "a very reassuring remark" [ant: {unreassuring}]

1: in a reassuring manner; "the prime minister pointed reassuringly to the silence of the British press"

1: a long noosed rope used to catch animals [syn: {lasso}, {lariat}, {riata}]

1: attribute to another source

1: French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer (1683-1757) [syn: {Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur}]

1: a temperature scale on which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 80 degrees

1: an alcohol thermometer calibrated in degrees Reaumur

1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: {plunder}, {despoil}, {loot}, {strip}, {rifle}, {ransack}, {pillage}, {foray}]...

1: awaken once again

1: `johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `grayback' derived from their gray Confederate uniforms [syn: {Rebel}, {Johnny Reb}, {...

1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent" [syn: {repellent}, {repellant}]

1: a refund of some fraction of the amount paid [syn: {discount}] 2: a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together [syn: {rabbet}] v 1: give a reduction in the price during a sale; "The store ...

1: a wired or starched collar of intricate lace; worn in 17th century [syn: {rabato}]

1: (Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau [syn: {Rebekah}]

1: a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617) [syn: {Pocahontas}, {Matoaka}]

1: British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983) [syn: {West}, {Dame Rebecca West}, {Cicily Isabel Fairfield}]

1: (Old Testament) wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau [syn: {Rebecca}]

1: used by northerners of Confederate soldiers; "the rebel yell" 2: participating in organized resistance to a constituted government; "the rebelling confederacy" [syn: {rebel(a)}, {rebelling(a)}, {re...

{rebel}

{rebel}

1: refusal to accept some authority or code or convention; "each generation must have its own rebellion"; "his body was in rebellion against fatigue" 2: organized opposition to authority; a conflict i...

1: resisting control or authority; "temperamentally rebellious"; "a rebellious crew" 2: discontented as toward authority [syn: {disaffected}, {ill-affected}, {malcontent}] 3: participating in organize...

1: in a rebellious manner; "he rejected her words rebelliously" [syn: {contumaciously}, {defiantly}]

1: intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude [syn: {defiance}] 2: an insubordinate act [syn: {insubordination}]

1: provide with a new binding; "The tattered old book is valuable and we need to rebind it"

1: after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body [syn: {metempsychosis}] 2: a second or new birth [syn: {reincarnation}] 3: the revival of learning and culture [syn: {Rena...

1: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer" [syn: {boot}, {bring up}]

1: spiritually reborn or converted; "a born-again Christian"; "a converted sinner" [syn: {born-again}, {converted}]

1: a movement back from an impact [syn: {recoil}, {repercussion}, {backlash}] 2: a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration; "he is still on the rebound from his wife's death" 3: the act of secu...

1: pain felt when a hand pressing on the abdomen is suddenly released; a symptom of peritoneal inflammation

1: an antidepressant drug that blocks the reuptake of norepinephrine [syn: {Edronax}]

1: a long woolen or linen scarf covering the head and shoulders (also used a sling for holding a baby); traditionally worn by Latin-American women

1: broadcast again, as of a film [syn: {rerun}]

1: a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) [syn: {slight}] 2: an instance of driving away or warding off [syn: {snub}, {repulse}] v 1: reject outright and blun...

1: build again; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb" [syn: {reconstruct}] [also: {rebuilt}]

1: building again

{rebuild}

1: an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face" [syn: {reproof}, {reproval}, {reprehension}, {reprimand}] v : censure severely or angrily; "The m...

1: punished especially by reproof or reprimand [syn: {admonished}, {chastened}, {reprimanded}, {reproved}]

1: someone who finds fault or imputes blame [syn: {upbraider}, {reprover}, {reproacher}]

1: in the manner of someone delivering a rebuke

1: the act of burying again [syn: {reburying}]

1: bury again; "After the king's body had been exhumed and tested to traces of poison, it was reburied in the same spot"

1: the act of burying again [syn: {reburial}]

1: a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words

1: overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments" [syn: {refute}] 2: prove to be false or incorrect [syn: {refute}, {controvert}] [also: {rebutting}, {rebutt...

1: the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument 2: (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder [syn: {rebutter}]

{rebut}

1: a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument [syn: {disprover}, {refuter}, {confuter}] 2: (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder [s...

{rebut}

1: a room equipped for informal entertaining [syn: {recreation room}]

1: the trait of being unmanageable [syn: {refractoriness}, {unmanageableness}, {recalcitrancy}]

1: the trait of being unmanageable [syn: {refractoriness}, {unmanageableness}, {recalcitrance}]

1: marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager"; "everything revolves around a refractory individual genius" [syn: {refractory}] 2: marked by stubbo...

1: show strong objection or repugnance; manifest vigorous opposition or resistance; be obstinately disobedient; "The Democratic senators recalcitrated against every proposal from the Republican side"

1: calculate anew; "The costs had to be recalculated"

1: the act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data); "recalculation yielded a much larger value"

1: a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) [syn: {callback}] 2: a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador" 3: a bugle call that ...

1: an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective [syn: {booster}, {booster dose}, {booster shot}]

1: formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs" [syn: {abjure}, {forswear}, {retract},...

1: a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion [syn: {retraction}, {abjuration}]

1: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion [syn: {recapitulation}, {review}] 2: a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads [syn: {retread}] v : ...

1: (music) the repitition of themes introduced earlier (especially when you are composing the final part of a movement)

1: summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas" [syn: {recap}] 2: repeat stages of evolutionary development during the embryonic phase of life 3: repeat an earlier theme of a composition [sy...

1: emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species [syn: {palingenesis}] [ant: {cenogenesis}] 2: a sec...

{recap}

{recap}

1: a legal seizure by the government of profits beyond a fixed amount 2: the act of taking something back [syn: {retaking}] v 1: experience anew; "She could not recapture that feeling of happiness" 2:...

1: cast again, in a different role; "He was recast as Iago" 2: cast again; "The bell cracked and had to be recast" [syn: {remold}, {remould}] 3: cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to ple...

1: changing a particular word or phrase [syn: {rewording}, {rephrasing}]

1: reconnaissance (by shortening) [syn: {recco}, {reccy}]

1: reconnaissance (by shortening) [syn: {recce}, {reccy}]

1: reconnaissance (by shortening) [syn: {recce}, {recco}]

1: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: {withdraw}, {retreat}, {pull away}, {draw back}, {pull back}, {retire}, {move back}] 2: move bac...

1: moving toward a position farther from the front; "the receding glaciers of the last ice age"; "retiring fogs revealed the rocky coastline" [syn: {retiring}] 2: (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly ba...

1: the act of receiving [syn: {reception}] 2: an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made v 1: report the receipt of; "The program committee acknowledged the submission of the auth...

1: the entire amount of income before any deductions are made [syn: {gross}, {revenue}]

1: awaiting payment; "accounts receivable"

1: money that you currently expect to receive from notes or accounts

1: get something; come into possession of; "receive payment"; "receive a gift"; "receive letters from the front" [syn: {have}] 2: receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilizati...

1: conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers; "standard English" (American); "received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British) [syn: {standard...

1: set that receives radio or tv signals [syn: {receiving system}] 2: (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties [...

1: the responsibility of receiver or trustee in bankruptcy to act in the best interests of the creditor

1: the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver; "the business is in receivership" 2: a court action that places property under the control of a receiver during litigation so that it can b...

1: an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals [syn: {radio receiver}, {radio set}, {radio}, {tuner}, {wireless}]

1: set that receives radio or tv signals [syn: {receiver}]

1: a time immediately before the present [syn: {recentness}] 2: the property of having happened or appeared not long ago [syn: {recentness}]