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Definitions: Rebate |
RebateNoun1. A refund of some fraction of the amount paid. 2. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together. Verb1. Give a rebate. 2. As of timber or stone. 3. Join with a rebate, as of pieces of timber or stone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rebate" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Economics | A reduction in the amount of money to be paid. Source: European Union. (references) |
Finance | Repayment by a government, in whole or in part, of customs duties on imported merchandise that is subsequently manufactured into a more finished article and reexported; or the refund, upon the exportation of an article, of a domestic tax to which it has been subjected. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A step-shaped reduction cut along the edge or face of a piece of wood, generally to receive the edge or tongue of another piece. Source: European Union. (references) |
Shipping | An illegal form of discounting or refunding that has the net effect of lowering the tariff price. See also Malpractice. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RebateSynonyms: discount (n), rabbet (n), cut a rebate in (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discount | Verb: discount, bate; abate, rebate; reduce, price down, mark down take off, allow, give, make allowance; tax. |
Noun: discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage; rebate, rebatement; backwardation, contango; salvage; tare and tret. | |
Moderation | Tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose, still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame, damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep, deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off; slake; curb; (restrain); tame; (subjugate); smooth over; pour oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre de l'eau dans son vin. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rebate |
| English words defined with "rebate": Backjoint ♦ cut a rebate in ♦ Rebatement, rent-rebate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rebate": rule of 78s. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rebate": Rabate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rebate" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (alarm, alarum). |
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Business | Other incentives to source inputs locally include a partial rebate of value-added taxes on the local content of exports. (references) | |
According to the Rebate Law, cash discounts to end-users may not exceed more than three percent of the actual or advertised price. (references) | ||
The Rebate Law (Gesetz ber Preisnachlaesse) is intended to protect medium-sized businesses from price dumping by larger companies. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Slovenia | All groups in the country report equal access to registration and tax rebate status. (references) |
Economic History | El Salvador | A 1997 amendment to this law exempts this rebate from income tax. (references) |
Lebanon | Additional new investments by existing businesses in South Lebanon will benefit from a 60 percent tax rebate. (references) | |
Political Economy | EL SALVADOR | Coffee and sugar can qualify for this rebate if they are shipped as a processed product. (references) |
NIGERIA | For 1999, a 25 percent import duty rebate that was granted importers in late 1997 was abolished. (references) | |
VENEZUELA | Venezuela has a duty drawback system that provides exporters with a customs rebate paid on imported inputs. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | Later, a rebate is given upon customs clearance out of Spain. (references) |
China | The applicable rebate method is a function of the establishment date of the enterprise. (references) | |
Egypt | The tax rebate system currently covers more than half of the major exported commodities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | If you do--and I hope you will--the Treasury can send the first check for half of the rebate in May and the second by September. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Rebate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.61% of the time. "Rebate" is used about 177 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 96.61% | 171 | 23,814 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.82% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 177 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "rebate": cut a rebate in ♦ rate rebate ♦ rebate of tax ♦ rent rebate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rebate": rebate-only. | |
Ending with "rebate": rent-rebate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
rebate | 2,607 |
tax rebate | 1,445 |
dell4me.com rebate | 945 |
dell rebate | 279 |
450cbi rebate | 274 |
auto rebate | 252 |
car rebate | 206 |
federal tax rebate | 194 |
cingular rebate | 165 |
ford rebate | 164 |
rebate check | 131 |
gm rebate | 117 |
income tax rebate | 114 |
hp rebate | 113 |
irs rebate | 112 |
half.com rebate | 111 |
lowes.com rebate | 108 |
free after rebate | 106 |
2003 apr auto rebate | 95 |
bush tax rebate | 92 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rebate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | afslag (abatement, discount), aftrek (absent onself, demand, depart, discount, go away, leave, pick, pluck, retreat, sale, subtract, tear, tear off), afslaan (aberrate, discount, reduce, reduce the price, reject, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zvogëloj (abate, belittle, curtail, decrease, diminish, lessen, make smaller, minimize, mitigate, qualify, reduce, relax, relieve, scale down, slacken, take away, take in, take up, understate), zbritje (alighting, allowance, commutation, deduction, descent, discount, disembarkation, down, falling, lowering, off reckoning, recoupment, reduction, subtraction), ulje (commutation, cut, cutback, decrease, degradation, depression, derogation, descent, diminution, disparagement, down, drop, falling, immersion, inclination, knee bend, landing, modulation, reduction, relaxation, sinking), skonto, kthim (conversion, double, handover, metamorphosis, rebound, recall, recovery, repercussion, restitution, return, transformation, traverse, turn, turnabout), bëj zbritje, bëj skonto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حسم (clench, clinch, decide, decision, deduct, deduction, determination, determine, discount, discounting, dispose, recoup, refund, settlement, sew up, shave), تنزيل (lessening), تخفيض (decrease, lessening, lowering, markdown, reduction, relief, run down), سداد الدين (quietus, quittance, redemption, refund), خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, cut, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), خصم إقتطاعي, خصم (adversary, antagonist, concurrent, deduct, discount, enemy, foe, hostile, knock off, levy, litigant, opposite, recoup, subtract, subtraction, withhold), جرى حسما. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отстъпка (allowance, concession, discount, drawback, reduction), отбив (allowance, discount), намаление (abridgement, curtailment, cutback, decline, decrease, discount, reduction, run down), жлеб (fillister, fuller, gouge, groove, mortise, pod, rabbet, race, slot), правя отстъпка (meet halfway, strain a point, stretch a point), притвор на прозорец (rabbet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | descompte (abatement, discount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 折扣 (Discount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rabat (discount), slevit (allow, make a reduction), sleva (abatement, allowance, deduction, discount, reduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | toldgodtgoerelse (drawback), tilbagebetaling (amortization, redemption, reduction, refund, repayment, retirement), fals (joint, rabbet), beslagarbejde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | korting (abatement, discount), korten (abbreviate, abridge, count down, curtail, discount, docking, shorten), aftrekken (count down, discount, infuse, march off, retreat, skimming, subtract, withdraw), afslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, beat off, cease, come to a halt, decrease, discount, flame out, go down, halt, knock off, lower, reduce the price, reject, stall, stalling, stop, strike off, turn, turning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | rabato (abatement, discount), rabati (discount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کم کردن (Alleviate, Bate, Cut, Deduce, Deduct, Detract, Drawoff, Extenuate, Reduce, Relax, Retrench, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Thin, Weaken), کندکردن (Blunt, Clog, Dull, Letup, Sheath, Sheathe, Slacken), کاهش (Abate, Decline, Decrease, Diminution, Reduction, Scaledown, Slake, Wastage), کاستن (Abate, Decline, Decrease, Detract, Discount, Drawoff, Lessen, Lighten, Pare, Shorten, Soften, Subtract), تخفیف (Discount, Refraction, Relaxation, Remission, Slake), بی ذوق کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kynte (rabbet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | remise (remission, remittance, reset), rabais. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | ôfslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, decrease, discount, lower, reduce the price, reject, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Rabatt (abatement, discount, reduction, trade discount), Rückzahlung (amortization, payment, redemption, refund, repayment, retirement), Rückvergütung (refund, reimbursement), Preisnachlass (abatement, discount, price-reduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έκπτωση (allowance, credit, deduction, deviation, discount, drift, granting of a reduction, markdown, reduction, refund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | engedmény (allowance, concession). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riduzione (abatement, adaptation, allowance, backward zoom, curtailment, cut, cutback, decrease, discount, letup, lowering, reduction, upward zoom), rimborso (amortization, recovery, redemption, reduction, refund, reimbursement, repayment, retirement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 割り引き (discount, reduction, tenths discounted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | リベート , わりびき (discount, reduction, tenths discounted), わりかえし. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 리 이트. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aayeeilley (compensate, compensation, recoup, repay, repayment, retribution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | rebaha (abatement, discount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ebateray desconto (abatement, allowance, deduction, discount, discounting, recoupment, set off), abatimento (abasement, abatement, chill, collapse, damp, dejection, depression, despondency, discount, doldrums, drawback, droop, dropping, enervation, heaviness, languor, leeway, mope, prostration, reduction, release, relief, remission, sag, sagging, settlement, slumping, small landslide, stress, subsidence, weekness). (various references) reducere (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, compression, contraction, curtailment, cut, deflation, degression, derogation, discount, dockage, drawback, drop, reduction, retrenchment, sinking), rabat (allowance, discount, reduction), toci (benumb, blunt, con, cram, cram up, dull, fret, grind, hack, mug, plug, take the edge off, wear), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away). (various references) уступка (cession, climb down, concession, concessioner, grant), уступать (acquiesce, assent, be inferior to, cede, comply, concede, fall back, give ground, give in, give way to, knuckle under, pass up, relinquish, remise, stand down, succumb, surrender, yield, yield to), скидка (abatement, discount), фальц (chase, rabbet, welt), шпунт (rabbet, tongue), вычет (deduction, off reckoning, recoupment), притуплять (abate, blunt, deaden, dull, hebetate, narcotize, stupefy). (various references) rabat, smanjiti (abate, curtail, cut back, cut down, decrease, diminish, downsize, lessen, mitigate, pare down, reduce, slash, whittle away, whittle down), popust (discount, shrinkage). (various references) rebaja (abatement, abbreviation, allowance, deduction, discount, reduction), descuento (abatement, calculation of present value, cash discount, cull, deduction, discount, discounting), reducción (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, adaptor, baiting, bating, contraction, curtailment, cutback, depletion, discount, mark down, narrowing, reducer, reducer fitting, reducing socket, reduction, retrenchment, setting, shortening, tapering), bajar (abase, abate, bow, bring down, climb down, come down, cut, decline, decrease, deign, demean, demote, depreciate, descend, detrain, discount, dismount, download, drop, drop off, duck, ebb, fall, fall away, fall back, fall off, get down, get off, get out, go below, go belowdecks, go down, hand down, hang, hop off, let down, lift down, lower, pull down, put down, recede, reduce, ring down, sag, set out, sink, step down, stoop, subside, take down, trail, turn down, walk down, walk off, wind down). (various references) rabatt (allowance, bed, border, discount, flowerbed, trade discount). (various references) ให้ส่วนล", เงินคืน, ส่วนที่ต้องคืนมา. (various references) para iadesi (refund), indirim (abatement, allowance, allowance for cash, cut, deduction, degression, discount, offtake, price cut, price cutting, purchase discount, reduction), iade (giving back, rendering, restoration, retrocession, return, surrender). (various references) фальц (rabbet, welt), шпунтувати (rabbet), вибирати фальц, знижка (abatement, allowance, deduction, discount), притупляти (benumb, damp, deaden, dull, narcotize, opiate, quench, rust), поступка (cession, climb down, concession), пом'якшувати (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, dulcify, expurgate, gentle, milden, mitigate, modify, mollify, palatalize, remit, smooth, smooth over, soft pedal, soften, soothe, tone down), паз (chamfer, groove, joggle, mortice, mortise, notch, rabbet, slot, socket). (various references) việc hạ giá, số tiền được giảm bớt. (various references) isephulelo (abatement, discount), -ephulela (discount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | rabattre. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rebate": rebated, rebater, rebaters, rebates. (additional references) | |
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"Rebate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: febantel, feebate, Neubaten, rabaat, Rabatou, rabbeter, Rabbitte, Rabita, reabte, reathe, rebadge, rebait, rebare, rebase, rebat, rebeat, rebitten, rebore, rebute, rebutle, rebutte, redate, regate, remate, rerate, resbite, revate, Ribat, ribote, rigate, rivate, Robat, robate, Robati, Rovatti, rubarto, Rubatex, rubati, Ryabtsev. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rebate" (pronounced rē"bā't) |
| 3 | -b ā' t | exacerbate, incubate, masturbate, probate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: beater, berate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-r-t" | |
-1 letter: arete, beret, eater, taber. | |
-2 letters: abet, bare, bate, bear, beat, beer, beet, beta, brae, brat, bree, rate, rete, tare, tear, tree. | |
-3 letters: arb, are, art, ate, bar, bat, bee, bet, bra, ear, eat, era, ere, eta, rat, reb, ree, ret, tab, tae, tar, tea, tee. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, ar, at, ba, be, er, et, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-r-t" | |
+1 letter: abetter, beaters, berated, berates, beretta, bleater, breathe, debater, rebated, rebater, rebates, retable, tabered. | |
+2 letters: abetters, absenter, absterge, acerbate, acerbest, arbelest, atremble, banneret, bantered, banterer, barbette, barrette, bartered, barterer, battener, battered, batterie, becarpet, berettas, berretta, betatter, betrayed, betrayer, bleaters, bracelet, breasted, breathed, breather, breathes, bregmate, cabernet, debaters, liberate, overbeat, rabbeted, rateable, rebaited, rebaters, rentable, retables, teaberry, tearable, tenebrae, terabyte, trabeate, vertebra, waterbed. | |
+3 letters: aberrated, abreacted, absenters, absterged, absterges, acerbated, acerbates, alterable, arbelests, bacterize, bannerets, banqueter, banterers, barbettes, barometer, barquette, barrenest, barrettes, bartended, bartender, barterers, batteners, batteries, beastlier, becarpets, beefeater, berrettas, bespatter, betatters, betrayers, blathered, blatherer, blattered, bleariest, bracelets, bracketed, bracteate, bracteole, breathers, breathier, brecciate, cabernets, celebrant, celebrate, cerebrate, debarment, eggbeater, elaborate, enterable, erectable, exuberant, exuberate, heartbeat, hereabout, heritable, hibernate, iceboater, inbreathe, inebriate, liberated, liberates, overbeats, perborate, prebattle, rebaptize, redbaited, redbreast, refutable, relatable, reprobate, reputable, steerable, streambed, tableware, tenurable, terabytes, tolerable, trabeated, traceable, tradeable, treatable, utterable, veritable, vertebrae, vertebral, vertebras, waterbeds. | |
+4 letters: abbreviate, acerbities, backstreet, bacteremia, bacteremic, bacterized, bacterizes, banistered, bannerette, banqueters, barefooted, barkentine, barometers, baronetage, barquettes, barretries, bartenders, basketries, beautifier, becarpeted, beefeaters, benefactor, bespatters, bestiaries, betattered, bighearted, bilgewater, blastomere, blatherers, bracteoles, breakwater, breastbone, breathable, breathiest, breathless, brecciated, brecciates, broadsheet, brocatelle, browbeaten, carbureted, celebrants, celebrated, celebrates, celebrator, cerebrated, cerebrates, creditable, cybernated, debarments, deliberate, deportable, deterrable, drumbeater, eggbeaters, elaborated, elaborates, elucubrate, embarkment, exacerbate, exportable, extricable, extrudable, exuberated, exuberates, exurbanite, featherbed, filterable, hartebeest, heartbeats, heartbreak, hereabouts, hibernated, hibernates, iceboaters, inbreathed, inbreathes, inebriated, inebriates, integrable, marketable, obliterate, overbeaten, penetrable, perborates, permutable, rabblement, rebaptized, rebaptizes, rebuttable, redbreasts, remittable, reobtained, repeatable, reportable, reprobated, reprobates, resectable, resemblant, resettable, restorable, returnable, streambeds, sweetbread, sweetbriar, tabernacle, tablewares, talebearer, targetable, teaberries, temperable, terminable, tetherball, thereabout, threadbare, tiebreaker, timberhead, trabeculae, vertebrate, waterborne, whereabout, whitebeard. | |
+5 letters: abbreviated, abbreviates, abridgement, afterburner, antechamber, arborescent, backstreets, bacteremias, bactericide, bannerettes, barkentines, barometries, baronetages, baronetcies, barquentine, bathysphere, beardtongue, beautifiers, beautifuler, becarpeting, benefactors, bereavement, bespattered, betattering, bicentenary, bilgewaters, blastomeres, bleacherite, boilerplate, brainteaser, breadbasket, breadthwise, breakfasted, breakfaster, breakwaters, breastbones, breastplate, breathiness, broadsheets, brocatelles, cabinetries, carburetted, carburetter, celebrating, celebration, celebrators, celebratory, centerboard, cerebrating, cerebration, certifiable, correctable, counterbade, decarbonate, decerebrate, defibrinate, deliberated, deliberates, detribalize, deverbative, drumbeaters, elaborately, elaborative, elucubrated, elucubrates, embarkments, embracement, embryonated, entablature, equilibrate, erythorbate, establisher, exacerbated, exacerbates, exorbitance, extractable, exuberantly, exuberating, exurbanites, featherbeds, fermentable, forfeitable, forgettable, glabrescent, halterbreak, halterbroke, hartebeests, harvestable, heartbreaks, heartbroken, houseboater, inalterable, inheritable, intolerable, irrefutable, leatherback, libertinage, meprobamate, obliterated, obliterates, overbeating, perambulate, perturbable, prediabetes, prediabetic, predictable, prepubertal, presentable, presentably, preventable, projectable, rabblements, reattribute, rebarbative, recalibrate, rectifiable, redoubtable, reestablish, registrable, regrettable, regrettably, reinhabited, relocatable, relubricate, reprobative, respectable, respectably, restabilize, restartable, retractable, retrainable, retrievable, returnables, reverberant, reverberate, rubefacient, sauerbraten, stretchable, subliterate, sweetbreads, sweetbriars, tabernacled, tabernacles, talebearers, talebearing, teeterboard, tetherballs, thereabouts, tiebreakers, tiebreaking, timberheads, torchbearer, trabeculate, trailerable, trainbearer, traversable, treasonable, treasurable, tuberculate, unalterable, unbracketed, unelaborate, unliberated, untraceable, unutterable, vertebrates, whereabouts, whitebeards. | |
| 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 62 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -... .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e b a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0062 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527168678671 |
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