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Definition: REGENERATIVE |
REGENERATIVEAdjective1. Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences. |
Date "REGENERATIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
| Synonyms by domain: peripheral pump (mechanical engineering, physicsmechanical engineering, meteorology & standards), regenerative arm (electrical engineering), regenerative brake (transportation), regenerative braking (electrical engineeringelectrical engineering, mechanical engineering), regenerative burner (metallurgy), regenerative cell (transportation), regenerative chamber (mining, metallurgy), regenerative circuit (mechanical engineering, meteorology & standards), regenerative cycle (nuclear energy & physics, electrical engineering), regenerative diet (medicine), regenerative dryer (mechanical engineering, meteorology & standards), regenerative food (medicine), regenerative heating (building & civil engineering, mechanical engineering), regenerative hops (electrical engineering), regenerative oven (electrical engineering, chemical industry), regenerative pannus (medicine), regenerative process (statisticseconomics), regenerative pump (mechanical engineering, physicsmechanical engineering, meteorology & standards), regenerative store (computing), regenerator (mining, metallurgy). |
Crosswords: REGENERATIVE |
| English words defined with "REGENERATIVE": Incarnative ♦ Regenerative furnace. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "REGENERATIVE": BATCH-AND-FURNACE OPERATOR, blocking oscillator ♦ Cowper-Siemens stove ♦ excess letdown heat exchanger ♦ fuel cooled, furnace attendant ♦ heuristic problem solving ♦ multivibrator ♦ recuperative heat exchanger, regenerative arm, regenerative braking, Regenerative Cooling, regenerative cycle, regenerative detector, regenerative engine, Regenerative Heating, regenerative principle, regenerative process, regenerative pump, Renewable Energy ♦ Schmidt trigger, Schmidt trigger circuit ♦ tank-and-batch operator ♦ Whetwell stove, Whitwell stove. (references) |
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| "REGENERATIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.88% of the time. "REGENERATIVE" is used about 64 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.88% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 64 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "REGENERATIVE": regenerative arm ♦ regenerative braking ♦ regenerative cycle ♦ regenerative furnace ♦ regenerative heating ♦ regenerative process ♦ regenerative pump. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "REGENERATIVE": psyche-regenerative. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "REGENERATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rigjenerues (recuperative), përtëritës (recuperative, rejuvenescent, tonic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مصلح (correlated, pacificatory, pacifier, peacemaker, reconditioned, reformer, reformist, remedial, renovated, restorer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | регенеративен, възстановяващ, възраждащ, обновяващ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 再" (regenerate, regenerating, regeneration, reproductive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | regenerativní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | periferipumpe (peripheral pump, regenerative pump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dubbelspiraalhuispomp (peripheral pump, regenerative pump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | احیاکننده (Reducer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | régénérateur (recuperative, regenerator, renovator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | regenerierend, regenerativ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναγεννητικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משובי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megújító (reformatory, regenerating), visszaszerző (regenerating), regeneráló (regenerating), felélesztő (regenerating), újjászervező (regenerating), újjáalkotó (regenerating, regenerator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pompa a canali periferici (peripheral pump, regenerative pump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 回"ブレーキ (regenerative brake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かいせいブレーキ (regenerative brake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 재생하". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | egenerativeray regenerativo, recuperativo (recuperative), que regenera. (various references) regenerator (regenerating, regenerator). (various references) регенеративный. (various references) regenerativan. (various references) regenerador (regenerate, regenerator, restorative). (various references) regenerativ. (various references) ซึ่งปฏิรูป. (various references) yeniden yaratıcı, tazeleyici, iyileştirici (amendatory, curative, healing, recuperative, reformative, reformatory, remedial, therapeutic), hayat veren (genial, life giving, refresher), düzeltici (amendatory, correctional, corrective, corrector, corrector of the press, emendatory, improver, proofreader, rectifier, reformative, reformatory), canlandırıcı (animator, bracing, crispy, enlivening, exhilarating, hearty, invigorating, refreshing, restorative, stiffener, stimulus, tonic, uplifting). (various references) регенеративний, відроджуючий. (various references) l m tái sinh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "REGENERATIVE": superregenerative. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "REGENERATIVE" (pronounced 'Re*gen"er*a*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive, Applicative, Appositive, Appreciative, Approbative, Appropriative, Approximative, Arbustive, Architective, Argumentative, Arrogative, Articulative, Asseverative, Assimilative, Associative, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Attestative, Auditive, Authoritative, Benedictive, Calculative, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circulative, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Coadjutive, Coagulative, Coercitive, Cogitative, Cognitive, Cognoscitive, Collative, Colliquative, Commemorative, Commiserative, Commonitive, Communicative, Commutative, Compellative, Competitive, Completive, Complimentative, Compositive, Compulsative, Compunctive, Conative, Concentrative, Conceptive, Concertative, Conciliative, Concretive, Condensative, Confederative, Confirmative, Confutative, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Connotative, Consecutive, Conservative, Considerative, Consignificative, Consolidative, Constitutive, Consultative, Consummative, Contamitive, Continuative, Contortive, Contributive, Convective, Conversative, Cooperative, Coordinative, Cosignificative, Costive, Creative, Criminative, Cucurbitive, Cumulative, Cunctative, Curative, Curvative, Deceptive, Declarative, Decorative, Decretive, Decussative, Defensative, Defunctive, Degenerative, Dehortative, Deletive, Denotative, Denunciative, Deoppilative, Depletive, Deprecative, Depreciative, Depurative, Derogative, Descriptive, Desiccative, Designative, Diffinitive, Diffractive, Disassimilative, Discerptive, Discretive, Discriminative, Dispensative, Dispositive, Disputative, Disquisitive, Disseminative, Dissipative, Dissociative, Dissolvative, Distinctive, Distractive, Dominative, Dormitive, Dubitative, Duplicative, Durative, Educative, Eductive, Edulcorative, Elaborative, Elative, Electro-motive, Eliminative, Elocutive, Elucidative, Emanative, Emotive, Emulative, Enervative, Ententive, Entitative, Enumerative, Enunciative, Erative, Estimative, Evacuative, Evocative, Exaggerative, Excalfactive, Excerptive, Excitative, Exclamative, Excrementive, Excretive, Exfoliative, Exhortative, Exonerative, Exortive, Expectorative, Expeditive, Experimentative, Explanative, Explicative, Explorative, Expositive, Exquisitive, Exsiccative, Extirpative, Extroitive, Exulcerative, Factitive, Factive, Facultative, Federative, Fermentative, festive, fictive, Finative, fixative, Flative, Forgetive, Fotive, Frequentative, fricative, Frigefactive, Fruitive, frustrative, furtive, generative, Germinative, Glutinative, gravitative, Gubernative, Hastive, Hesitative, Humective, Illuminative, illustrative, imaginative, Imbricative, Impeditive, Imperceptive, Impetrative, implicative, Imputative, inactive, inattentive, Inauthoritative, Incarnative, Incerative, Incitative, Incogitative, incommunicative, incorporative, Incubative, Indagative, Indescriptive, Indictive, Indiscriminative, Indistinctive, Induplicative, Indutive, Infiltrative, Infirmative, Inflammative, informative, Inirritative, Innative, innovative, Innutritive, inoperative, Inscriptive, insensitive, Insignificative, Insinuative, instinctive, Institutive, Insusceptive, Intellective, Intempestive, Intensative, Intensitive, Intentive, Interadditive, Interpenetrative, interpretative, interpretive, Interstinctive, intransitive, Introductive, introspective, intuitive, investigative, Irreceptive, Irrelative, irrespective, Irretentive, irritative, irruptive, iterative, Judicative, Jurisdictive, justificative, Lacerative, laxative, legislative, locative, lucrative, Magnetomotive, manipulative, Manumotive, Mediative, medicative, meditative, Memorative, Ministrative, Miscreative, Misrepresentative, mitigative, Modificative, Monitive, Mordicative, Multiplicative, Mundificative, Native, Nauseative, Nominative, Nonsensitive, Numerative, Nuncupative, Nutritive, Obliterative, Observative, Obstupefactive, Olfactive, Omnispective, Opinative, Opiniative, Opinionative, Oppilative, Oppositive, Ordinative, Originative, Ortive, Oscillative, Ostentive, Overdtive, Palative, Parthenogenitive, Participative, Parturitive, Pedomotive, Pejorative, Pendentive, Penetrative, Pensative, Perceptive, Perforative, Perspirative, Perturbative, Petrifactive, Philoprogenitive, Pignorative, Plaintive, Portative, Postpositive, Potestative, Poultive, Practive, Preceptive, Predestinative, Predicative, Preemptive, Prefigurative, Preformative, Prejudicative, Prepositive, Prerogative, Prescriptive, Presentative, Presumptive, Pretentative, Preteritive, Preventative, Probative, Procreative, Productive. 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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-e-g-i-n-r-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: generative, regenerate. | |
-3 letters: evergreen, reengrave, retearing, reverting, veratrine. | |
-4 letters: agentive, averring, averting, enervate, engraver, ergative, everting, generate, gratinee, greenier, grievant, interage, inverter, negative, regainer, retainer, retrieve, revenger, reverent, revering, taverner, teenager, veneerer, venerate, veratrin, vintager. | |
-5 letters: angrier, arenite, avenger, eagerer, earring, engrave, enterer, etagere, grainer, granite, grantee, granter, gratine, greaten, greater, greener, greenie, greeter, griever, ingrate, integer, naivete, negater, nervate, nervier, rangier, ravener, reagent, rearing, reaving, reenter, reeving, reginae, regiven, regrant, regrate, regreen, regreet, reinter, reneger, rentier, retinae, retiree, retrain, revenge, reverie, riveter, tangier, tarring, tearier, tearing, teenage, teenier, terrain, terrane, terreen, terrene, terrine, trainee, trainer, treeing, veering, ventage, vernier, veteran, vinegar, vintage, virgate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-e-g-i-n-r-r-t-v" | |
+5 letters: neurodegenerative, superregenerative. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 45 47 45 4E 45 52 41 54 49 56 45 |
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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 01000111 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R E G E N E R A T I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0045 0047 0045 004E 0045 0052 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045 |
| 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)523941394839523554435639 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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