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Definition: Reactivate |
ReactivateVerb1. Activate anew; as of an old file. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Reactivate |
| Specialty definitions using "reactivate": CONTINUOUS-ABSORPTION-PROCESS OPERATOR ♦ POLYSTYRENE-MOLDING-MACHINE TENDER. (references) |
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Health | In such cases, an infection that occurred anytime during life can reactivate and cause the severe symptoms of toxoplasmosis such as damage to the eye or brain. (references) | |
Similarly, a large proportion of patients with acute leukemia or others receiving intensive chemotherapy will reactivate HSV during periods of immunosuppression. (references) | ||
Cytomegalic inclusion body disease (CIBD) is caused by infection from the cytomegalic virus (CMV), a type of herpes virus that can lie dormant after initial infection and then reactivate periodically throughout life. The virus causes enlargement of cells of some organs and the development of inclusion bodies- discrete masses of cellular material-in the cytoplasm or nucleus of these cells. (references) | ||
Business | Cottonseed is no longer produced in the country, but there is an initiative to develop experimental plantations to reactivate cotton production in the country. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Switzerland | In such a case the applicant must submit an appeal to reactivate consideration of the application within 24 hours. (references) |
Economic History | Dominican Republic | Balaguer was returned to the presidency with electoral victories in 1986 and 1990. Upon taking office in 1986, Balaguer tried to reactivate the economy through a public works construction program. (references) |
Peru | Despite strong indications that President-elect Toledo's government would take immediate steps to reactivate the economy and attract investment, analysts did not expect to see significant growth until 2002. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Reactivate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Reactivate" is used about 40 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) | 87.5% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
reactivate | 10 |
account hotmail reactivate | 9 |
account reactivate | 9 |
reactivate window xp | 5 |
hotmail reactivate | 3 |
reactivate tracfone | 3 |
cell phone reactivate | 3 |
account msn reactivate | 2 |
account aol reactivate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "reactivate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ringjall veprimtarinë, ringjall (raise, raise from the dead, reanimate, regenerate, resurrect, resuscitate), organizoj përsëri. (various references) | |
Arabic | نشط (activate, active, animate, bestir oneself, brisk, buoyant, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, practising, pushing, quick, quicken, rekindle, revive, rouse, stimulate, stringent, strong, vivify, waken), جدد النشاط. (various references) | |
Chinese | 恢复活动. (various references) | |
Farsi | دوباره فعال کردن . (various references) | |
French | réactiver (revive). (various references) | |
German | reaktivieren (brush up, call up again, polish up, rehabilitate, revive). (various references) | |
Greek | επαναλειτουργώ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | újra mûködésbe hoz, újból megalakít. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eactivateray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reativar. (various references) | |
Romanian | reactiva. (various references) | |
Russian | реактивировать (revivify). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | reaktivirati. (various references) | |
Spanish | reactivar. (various references) | |
Swedish | återaktivera. (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้กระชุ่มกระชวย, กระชุ่มกระชวย (hale, hale and hearty). (various references) | |
Turkish | yeniden yürürlüğe koymak, tekrar devreye sokmak, tekrar çalıştırmak. (various references) | |
Ukranian | реактивувати (revivify), відновлювати діяльність, пожвавлювати (brisk, enliven, exhilarate, point, soup, spirit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reactivate": reactivated, reactivates. (additional references) | |
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"Reactivate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reactivart, reactivator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reactivate" (pronounced rē"a"ktuvā't) |
| 7 | -a" k t u v ā' t | activate. |
| 5 | -t u v ā' t | cultivate, motivate. |
| 4 | -u v ā' t | aggravate, elevate, excavate, innovate, renovate, salivate. |
| 3 | -v ā' t | captivate, deactivate, inactivate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-r-t-t-v" | |
-2 letters: acervate, acierate, activate, cavitate, creative, reactive, tractive, vicarate. | |
-3 letters: acerate, acetate, arietta, ariette, avarice, cattier, cavetti, caviare, citrate, iterate, teacart, variate. | |
-4 letters: active, aerate, atavic, attire, aviate, carate, cattie, caveat, caviar, cerate, cerite, cravat, create, ecarte, ratite, recite, tercet, tierce, trevet, trivet, vacate, verite, vittae. | |
-5 letters: acari, aceta, aecia, aerie, aiver, areae, areca, areic, arete, atria, attar, attic, avert, carat, caret, carte, carve, cater, caver, cavie, ceria, citer, civet, crate, crave, eater, erect, erica, evert, evict, evite, irate, react, reata, reave, recta, recti, reive, retia, retie, revet, riata, rivet, tacet, tacit, tatar, tater, tecta, terai, terce, tetra, tiara, titer, titre, trace, tract, trait, trave, treat, triac, trice, trite, varia, vatic, vicar, vitae, vitta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-r-t-t-v" | |
+1 letter: reactivated, reactivates. | |
+2 letters: anticreative. | |
+4 letters: attractiveness, overarticulate. | |
+5 letters: overarticulated, overarticulates. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 61 63 74 69 76 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .- -.-. - .. ...- .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e a c t i v a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0061 0063 0074 0069 0076 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716769867588678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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