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Definitions: Re-create |
Re-createVerb1. 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-createSynonym: copy (v). (additional references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | The good Earth -- let's re-create it --.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 86.57% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.43% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 67 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 crea din nou. (various references) 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) recrear (recreate). (various references) skapa på nytt. (various references) yenilemek (make over, modernize, rebuild, recondition, redintegrate, refurbish, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, revamp, touch up, vamp up), yeniden yaratmak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Re-create" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Recercare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 2D 63 72 65 61 74 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 00101101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e - c r e a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 002D 0063 0072 0065 0061 0074 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527115698471678671 |
| 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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