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REPARATIVE

Definitions: REPARATIVE

REPARATIVE

Adjective

1. Repairing, or tending to repair.

Noun

1. That which repairs.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "REPARATIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms within Context: REPARATIVE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Restoration

Restoring; Verb: restorative, recuperative; sanative, reparative, sanatory, reparatory; curative, remedial.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: REPARATIVE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Healing Homosexuality: Case Stories of Reparative Therapy (reference)

  • Reparative and Constructive Surgery of the Female Generative Tract (reference)

  • Reparative Medicine: Growing Tissues and Organs (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 961) (reference)

  • Reparative realism : mourning and modernity in the French novel, 1730-1830 (reference)

  • Reparative Therapy of Male Homosexuality: A New Clinical Approach (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: REPARATIVE

"REPARATIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "REPARATIVE" is used about 6 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: REPARATIVE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  reparative therapy

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: REPARATIVE

Language Translations for "REPARATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

wiedergutmachend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επανορθωτικόσ (corrective), αποζημιωτικόσ (compensatory). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eparativeray

   

Romanian

  

tonic (bracing, healthful, invigorating, invigorator, pick me up, restorative, tonic), justiţiar (redeeming), întremãtor (strengthening, tonic). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งซ่อมแซมไ"้ (mendable). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

có tính chất đền bù, để b"i thường, để đền bù. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: REPARATIVE

Derivations

Words ending with "REPARATIVE": preparative. (additional references)

Words containing "REPARATIVE": preparatively, preparatives. (additional references)


Misspellings

"REPARATIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rebarative, repairative. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: REPARATIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-p-r-r-t-v"

-1 letter: privateer.

-2 letters: privater, veratria.

-3 letters: apteria, pareira, partier, pearter, peatier, pervert, preaver, private, riveter, taperer, tearier, variate.

-4 letters: aerate, aerier, arrive, artier, aviate, errata, irater, pareve, pereia, perter, pirate, prater, privet, rapier, reaper, reaver, reiver, repair, repave, repeat, retape, retear, retire, revert, riever, tearer, terrae, varier, verier, verite.

-5 letters: aerie, airer, aiver, apart, apter, areae.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-p-r-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: preparative, prevaricate.

 

+2 letters: preparatives, prevaricated, prevaricates.

 

+3 letters: preparatively.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: REPARATIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 50 41 52 41 54 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01010000 01000001 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#80 &#65 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0050 0041 0052 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

52395035523554435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography 		9. Bibliography


  

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