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Definition: REFECT |
REFECTTransitive verb1. To restore after hunger or fatigue; to refresh. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Strength | Render strong; Adjective: give strength; Noun: strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on one's legs; vivify; refresh; refect; reinforce, reenforce; (restore). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "REFECT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نیروی مجدددادن , سدجوع وتجدیدنیروکردن , بامشروب یاخوراک تجدیدقواکردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | efectray บำรุงร่างกาย"้วยอาหาร. (various references) освіжати (brush up, freshen, freshen up, refresh, sweeten), підкріпляти (afforce, back, buttress, confirm, enforce, piece in, reinforce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "REFECT": refected, refecting, refection, refections, refectories, refectory, refects. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "REFECT": prefect. (additional references) | |
Words containing "REFECT": prefects, prefectural, prefecture, prefectures. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-r-t" | |
-1 letter: erect, terce. | |
-2 letters: cere, cete, feet, fere, fete, free, fret, reef, reft, rete, tree, tref. | |
-3 letters: cee, eft, ere, fee, fer, fet, rec, ree, ref, ret, tee. | |
-4 letters: ef, er, et, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-r-t" | |
+1 letter: fetcher, perfect, prefect, refects, reflect. | |
+2 letters: affecter, crowfeet, defector, effecter, effector, fetchers, fiercest, fletcher, frenetic, infecter, perfecta, perfecto, perfects, praefect, prefects, redefect, refected, reflects, reinfect. | |
+3 letters: affecters, aftercare, afterdeck, cafeteria, certified, certifier, certifies, cofeature, decertify, defectors, deflector, effecters, effectors, electrify, fletchers, forcemeat, frenetics, imperfect, infecters, interface, perfectas, perfected, perfecter, perfectly, perfectos, praefects, recertify, rectified, rectifier, rectifies, redefects, refecting, refection, refectory, reflected, reflector, refracted, reinfects, rufescent, unperfect. | |
+4 letters: aftercares, afterdecks, afterpiece, benefactor, cafeterias, centerfold, centrifuge, certifiers, cofeatured, cofeatures, conferment, deflectors, dentifrice, farfetched, feracities, ferocities, fictioneer, flichtered, florescent, forcemeats, forecasted, forecaster, forecastle, freckliest, frutescent, henceforth, imperfects, interfaced, interfaces, perfecters, perfectest, perfecting, perfection, perfective, pluperfect, precertify, prefecture, rectifiers, redefected, refections, reflecting, reflection, reflective, reflectors, refractile, refractive, reinfected, respectful, tenebrific, vociferate. | |
+5 letters: aftereffect, afterpieces, benefactors, carefullest, centerfolds, centrifuged, centrifuges, certifiable, certificate, confederate, conferments, counterfeit, counterfire, crestfallen, decertified, decertifies, deforcement, dentifrices, electrified, electrifies, electroform, enforcement, fictioneers, fluorescent, forecasters, forecastles, freneticism, furtherance, imperfectly, interoffice, perfectible, perfections, perfectives, perfectness, pluperfects, prefectural, prefectures, recertified, recertifies, rectifiable, redefecting, refectories, reflectance, reflections, reinfecting, reinfection, rubefacient, superinfect, thenceforth, transfected, uncertified, vociferated, vociferates. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 46 45 43 54 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ..-. . -.-. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000101 01000110 01000101 01000011 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E F E C T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0046 0045 0043 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)523940393754 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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