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Re-creation

Definitions: Re-creation

Re-creation

Noun

1. The act of creating again.

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

Date "re-creation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Re-creation

DomainDefinitions

Satire

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: Re-creation

English words defined with "re-creation": evocationPalingenesy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "re-creation": Restoration ecology. (references)

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Modern Usage: Re-creation

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Re-Creation of Brian Kent (1925)

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

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Commercial Usage: Re-creation

DomainTitle

Books

  • Inventing a Hero: The Posthumour Re-Creation of Andres Bonifacio (reference)

  • Making Ontario: Agricultural Colonization and Landscape Re-Creation Before the Railway (reference)

  • New Faith: A Black Christian Woman's Guide to Reformation, Re-Creation, Rediscovery, Renaissance, Resurrection, and Revival (reference)

  • Reminiscence and Re-creation in Contemporary American Fiction (reference)

  • The Garden of Eden: The Botanic Garden and the Re-Creation of Paradise (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Re-creation

"Re-creation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Re-creation" is used about 65 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
Noun (singular)100%6541,645

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

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Modern Translations: Re-creation

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

Bulgarian 

  

възпроизвеждане (reproduction), пресъздаване, претворяване. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

游艺 (recreation). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

újjáteremtés (regeneration), újjáalkotás. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

휴양 (Recreating, recreation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

e-creationray

   

Russian 

  

создание заново, восстановление (compensation, rebuilding, reclamation, reconstruction, recovery, redress, reduction, re-establishment, refreshment, refurbishment, rehabilitation, reinstatement, renewal, renovation, repair, reproduction, restitution, restoration, resurgence, retrieval). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự tạo lại, sự lập lại. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Re-creation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: recreation.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-o-r-r-t"

-1 letter: certainer.

-2 letters: anoretic, anterior, carotene, carrotin, centiare, creatine, creation, erection, increate, iterance, neoteric, reaction, recanter, recreant, reorient, retainer, tricorne.

-3 letters: acetone, aconite, arenite, carotin, carrion, caterer, centare, ceratin, certain, cirrate, cointer, corneae, cornier, coterie, creatin, creator, crenate, enactor, enteric, enticer, erector, erotica, erratic, noticer, ocreate, onerier, reactor, reciter, recrate, reenact, reinter, rentier, retinae, retrace, retrain, tacrine, tearier, terrace, terrain, terrane, terrine, trainee, trainer, tricorn.

-4 letters: acetin, action, aeonic, aerier, aortic, aroint, artier, atoner, atonic, canter, cantor, careen, career, carnet, carnie, carrot, carter, carton, cation, cenote, centai, center, centra, centre, cerate, cerite, cetane, citron, coatee, coater, coiner, contra, cornea, corner, cornet, corrie, cortin, crater, craton, create, cretin, earner, ecarte, enatic, encore, entera, entice, entire, erotic, errant, irater, ironer, nearer, neater, nectar, noetic, norite, notice, ocreae, octane, orcein, orient, ornate, orrice, racier, rancor, ranter, ratine, ration, recane, recant, recent, recite, recoin, rector, reearn, renter, retain, retear, retina, retine, retire, retore, retorn, rioter, tanrec, tearer, tenace, teniae, tenrec, terrae, tierce, tonier, tracer, trance, triene, trocar.

-5 letters: acorn, actin, actor, aerie, airer, antic, antre, areic, arete, atone, cairn, caner, canoe, canto, carer, caret, carte, cater, cento, ceria, citer, coati, conte, corer, coria, cotan, crane, crate, crier, crone, crore, eaten, eater, enact, enate, enter, entia, erect, erica, inert, inter, intro, irate, irone, nacre, narco, naric, nicer, niece, niter, nitre, nitro, noria, noter, oaten, oater, ocean, ocrea, octan, ontic, orate, orcin, racer, racon, rance, ranee, rater, ratio, react, recon, recta, recti, recto, rente, reran, retia, retie, retro, riant, ricer, taroc, tarre, tenia, tenor, terai, terce, terne, terra, tinea, toner, tonic, toric, trace, train, treen, triac, trice, trier, trine, trona, trone.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-o-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: areocentric, cerebration, recreations.

 

+2 letters: cerebrations, intercompare, overreacting, overreaction, precentorial, recreational, recuperation, redecorating, redecoration, secretionary.

 

+3 letters: conservatoire, contrarieties, counterraided, craniometries, decerebration, ferromagnetic, intercompared, intercompares, mercerization, nonretractile, overreactions, reactionaries, recreationist, recuperations, redecorations, reincorporate, terpsichorean.

 

+4 letters: conservatoires, conservatories, contemporaries, contrarinesses, corynebacteria, counterrallied, counterrallies, decerebrations, enterobacteria, extraembryonic, gerontocracies, intercorporate, intercorrelate, intermolecular, mercaptopurine, mercerizations, nonretroactive, overcentralize, overdecorating, overdecoration, overextraction, reconsecrating, reconsecration, recreationists, refractoriness, reincorporated, reincorporates, resurrectional.

 

+5 letters: antiforeclosure, chronotherapies, cinematographer, confraternities, corynebacterial, corynebacterium, counterguerilla, counterreaction, enterobacterial, enterobacterium, heterochromatin, intercorrelated, intercorrelates, mercaptopurines, nonarchitecture, overcentralized, overcentralizes, overdecorations, overextractions, parthenocarpies, reaccreditation, recertification, reconcentrating, reconcentration, reconsecrations, reconsideration, reorchestrating, reorchestration.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Re-creation


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

52 65 2D 63 72 65 61 74 69 6F 6E

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

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

01010010 01100101 00101101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#45 &#99 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 002D 0063 0072 0065 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

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

5271156984716786758180

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INDEX

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


  

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