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re

prep
/ɹiː//ɹeɪ/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from resonāre — “made to resound”
  2. derived from re
  3. inherited from re

Definitions

  1. About, regarding, with reference to

    About, regarding, with reference to; used especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.

    • Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254
    • "I know it's been a long haul, but can we please not get complacent re: our annual magic gunk explosion? I can't believe I just typed those words."

  2. A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.

  3. Clipping of rematch.

    • gg, no re'
  4. ›+ 21 more definitions

    1. Clipping of reinsurance, used in the branding of reinsurance company names.

    2. Clipping of age regressor.

    3. Alternative form of Ra.

    4. rupee

    5. Reinsurance.

      • Swiss Re

    6. A municipality of Vestfold, Norway.

    7. Alternative form of re (“regarding”).

    8. Earth radius

      Earth radius: the radius of planet Earth, regarded as a unit of measurement.

    9. The radius of the Earth specifically.

    10. Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army.

    11. The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India.

    12. Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.

    13. Initialism of recursively enumerable

      Initialism 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. See more at RE (complexity) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

    14. Initialism of religious education.

    15. Initialism of rare earth.

    16. Initialism of response element.

    17. Initialism of real estate.

    18. Initialism of renewable energy.

    19. Initialism of run-time environment.

    20. Initialism of reverse engineering.

    21. Initialism of reproductive endocrinologist.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for re. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA