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Reactivate

Definition: Reactivate

Reactivate

Verb

1. Activate anew; as of an old file.

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

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Crosswords: Reactivate

Specialty definitions using "reactivate": CONTINUOUS-ABSORPTION-PROCESS OPERATORPOLYSTYRENE-MOLDING-MACHINE TENDER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Reactivate

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Reactivate

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Reactivate

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)87.5%3558,339
Lexical Verb (base form)7.5%3202,518
Noun (proper)5%2245,945
                    Total100.00%40N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reactivate

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

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.

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Modern Translations: Reactivate

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reactivate

Derivations

Words beginning with "reactivate": reactivated, reactivates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Reactivate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: reactivart, reactivator. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Reactivate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "reactivate" (pronounced rē"a"ktuvā't)
7-a" k t u v ā' tactivate.
5-t u v ā' tcultivate, motivate.
4-u v ā' taggravate, elevate, excavate, innovate, renovate, salivate.
3-v ā' tcaptivate, deactivate, inactivate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Reactivate

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Reactivate


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

52 65 61 63 74 69 76 61 74 65

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)

.-.    .    .-    -.-.    -    ..    ...-    .-    -    .

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

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

01010010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#97 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0061 0063 0074 0069 0076 0061 0074 0065

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

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

52716769867588678671

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INDEX

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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