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Re-create

Definitions: Re-create

Re-create

Verb

1. Create anew; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale".

2. Make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt".

3. Form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind; "His mind re-creates the entire world".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "re-create" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)



Synonym: Re-create

Synonym: copy (v). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Re-create

DomainTitle

Books

  • Classic Garden Design: How to Adapt and Re-Create Garden Features of the Past (reference)

  • Make History: Ancient Egypt: Re-Create Authentic Jewelry, Toys, and Other Crafts from Another Place and Time (Make History) (reference)

  • Re-create Your Life : Transforming Yourself and Your World With the Decision Maker Process (reference)

  • Strategic Choices for the Academy : How Demand for Lifelong Learning Will Re-Create Higher Education (reference)

  • Which Lilith?: Feminist Writers Re-Create the World's First Woman (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Re-create

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The good Earth -- let's re-create it --.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Re-create

"Re-create" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 86.57% of the time. "Re-create" is used about 67 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
Lexical Verb (infinitive)86.57%5844,427
Lexical Verb (base form)13.43%9117,287
                    Total100.00%67N/A

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

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Modern Translations: Re-create

Language Translations for "re-create"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

възпроизвеждам (copy), пресъздавам, претворявам. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

再创 (recreate, Recreated, re-created, Recreating). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

herscheppen (transform). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

rekrei. (various references)

   

French

  

recréer l'atmosphère piétonnière (to re-create the pedestrian-friendly environment). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

újra előállít (to recreate, to re-create), újjáteremt (to recreate, to re-create), újjáalkot (to recreate, to re-create). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

endurskapa. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ricreare zone pedonali (to re-create the pedestrian-friendly environment). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

휴양하십시" (recreate). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

e-createray

   

Romanian

  

crea din nou. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

восстанавливать (back out, deoxidize, indispose, re establish, reactivate, reassure, rebuild, reclaim, reconstruct, recover, recuperate, redintegrate, redress, reedify, reenable, re-enable, re-establish, refurbish, regain, reinstate, renew, renovate, revive, undelete, unremove), вновь создавать (rebuild, recreate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

recrear (recreate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skapa på nytt. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yenilemek (make over, modernize, rebuild, recondition, redintegrate, refurbish, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, revamp, touch up, vamp up), yeniden yaratmak. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Re-create

Misspellings

"Re-create" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Recercare. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Re-create

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: recreate.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-r-r-t"

-1 letter: caterer, erecter, recrate, reerect, retrace, terrace.

-2 letters: career, carter, cerate, crater, create, ecarte, retear, tearer, terrae, tracer.

-3 letters: arete, carer, caret, carte, cater, crate, eater, erect, racer, rater, react, recta, tarre, terce, terra, trace.

-4 letters: acre, care, carr, cart, cate, cere, cete, race, rare, rate, rear, rete, tace, tare, tear, tree.

-5 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, cee, ear, eat, era, ere, err, eta, rat, rec, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, tee.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: cerebrate, racketeer, recreated, recreates.

 

+2 letters: cerebrated, cerebrates, desecrater, racketeers, recarpeted, recreative, recuperate, redecorate, reentrance.

 

+3 letters: carpentered, cartwheeler, decelerator, decerebrate, desecraters, overreacted, racketeered, rechartered, recuperated, recuperates, redecorated, redecorates, reentrances, secretaries, treacheries.

 

+4 letters: cartwheelers, decelerators, decerebrated, decerebrates, generatrices, heterocercal, overdecorate, racketeering, reaccelerate, reaccredited, reconsecrate, recuperative, tercentenary, transference, underreacted, watercresses.

 

+5 letters: accelerometer, bureaucratese, catercornered, decerebrating, decerebration, electrodermal, hyperreactive, metacercariae, overdecorated, overdecorates, reaccelerated, reaccelerates, reconcentrate, reconsecrated, reconsecrates, refractometer, reorchestrate, transferences, weathercaster.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Re-create


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

52 65 2D 63 72 65 61 74 65

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

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

01010010 01100101 00101101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#45 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 002D 0063 0072 0065 0061 0074 0065

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

527115698471678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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