Reformer

Definitions: Reformer

Reformer

Noun

1. A disputant who advocates reform.

2. An apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel; "a catalytic reformer".

Date "reformer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Reformer

Domain	Definitions
19th Century Satire	One who, when he smells a rat, is eager to let the cat out of the bag. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
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Specialty Definition: Reformer

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The word "Reformer", when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language.

A reformer is a person who wishes to change a system to improve it.
A reformer is a personality type in Enneagram spiritual psychology - see reformer (Enneagram)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Reformer."

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Synonyms: Reformer

Synonyms: crusader (n), meliorist (n), reformist (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Reformer

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Improvement	Reformer, radical.
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Crosswords: Reformer

English words defined with "reformer": abolitionist, activist, Anthony Comstock ♦ birth-control campaigner, birth-control reformer ♦ Charles Fourier, Chartist, Comenius, Come-outer, Comstock ♦ dry ♦ emancipationist ♦ Fourier, Francis Everett Townsend, Francois Marie Charles Fourier ♦ Girolamo Savonarola ♦ Hus, Huss ♦ Jan Amos Komensky, Jan Hus, John Amos Comenius, John Huss, John Wilkes ♦ militant ♦ non-resistant ♦ Owen ♦ passive resister, prohibitionist ♦ Robert Owen ♦ Savonarola, Schwenkfeldian ♦ Townsend ♦ Utopian ♦ Wahabee, Wilkes, Wycliffite. (references)

Specialty definitions using "reformer": BUDDHA ♦ Hussites ♦ Orthography ♦ Pandemonium ♦ Rienzi ♦ SAVONAROLA, Scene Painters, SMITHAREEN. (references)

Etymologies containing "reformer": Huguenot. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Reformer" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (reform), German (reformer, reformers).

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Modern Usage: Reformer

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I the, arch heretic, am reformer Stanley Tweedle. (Lexx: The Dark Zone; writing credit: Paul Donovan; Lex Gigeroff)
Movie/TV Titles	The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) Reformer Sandy (1916)
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Commercial Usage: Reformer

Domain	Title
Books	Fighting Bob LA Follette: The Righteous Reformer (reference) Luther the Reformer (reference) Martin Luther: The Great Reformer (Heroes of the Faith) (reference) The Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman, Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician (reference) The Good Fight: The Education of an American Reformer (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Tuesday Times Reformer (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Classical Pilates Complete Universal Reformer Series (basic, intermediate, advanced) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Image Slideshow: Reformer

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Photo Album: Reformer

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	An acquisitive reformer.Credit: Library of Congress.		The Senator and the reformer.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Reformer

Author	Quotation
Lydia M. Child	A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
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Historic Usage: Reformer

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer. (reference)
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Use in Literature: Reformer

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	A sentimental reformer in architecture, he began at the cornice, not at the foundation.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Reformer

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Estonia	Estonia's graduation in September 1996 from USAID's assistance programs recognizes its position as a leading economic reformer in Central and Eastern Europe. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	The Saudi state began in central Arabia in about 1750. A local ruler, Muhammad bin Saud, joined forces with an Islamic reformer, Muhammad Abd Al-Wahhab, to create a new political entity. (references)
	Ukraine	Following his reelection, Kuchma successfully assembled a parliamentary majority supportive of the government and its new Prime Minister, former Central Bank head and economic reformer Viktor Yushchenko. (references)
Political Economy	Ukraine	Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko, who was named prime minister in December 1999 and formerly headed the National Bank of Ukraine, was viewed as a reformer, but he faced difficulties in fully carrying out reforms and his clashes with powerful political/ business interests as well as with leftist factions brought about his ouster following an April 2001 no-confidence vote. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear. Advocated with more heat than light by the outmates of every asylum for the insane. They have had to concede a few things since the time of Chaucer, but are none the less hot in defence of those to be conceded hereafter. A spelling reformer indicted For fudge was before the court cicted. The judge said: "Enough -- His candle we'll snough, And his sepulchre shall not be whicted."
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Spoken Usage: Reformer

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Senator Paul Sarbanes	Well, first of all, I think that is the general perception. I don't think it makes it impossible for the president to be a reformer, but it means he's got to be very active and very much out in front in the reform efforts.
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Usage Frequency: Reformer

"Reformer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.95% of the time. "Reformer" is used about 191 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)	98.95%	189	22,353
Noun (proper)	1.05%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	191	N/A

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

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Expressions: Reformer

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "reformer": reformer-the.
	Ending with "reformer": anti-reformer, non-reformer, spelling-reformer, tsar-reformer.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Reformer

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
brattleboro reformer	187
reformer simcoe	120
pilates reformer	92
reformer	38
reformer unanimous	10
pilates reebok reformer	7
reformer rutherglen	7
hydrogen reformer	6
allegro pilates reformer	5
reformer social	5
equipment pilates reformer	5
compact reformer	4
rust reformer	4
exercise pilates reformer	4
reformer stepchildren their	3
allegro reformer	3
luther martin reformer	3
gratz reformer	3
brattleboro newspaper reformer	3
reformer steam	2
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Modern Translations: Reformer

Language		Translations for "reformer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		reformues (reformative), reformator. (various references)

Arabic		‏مصلح (correlated, pacificatory, pacifier, peacemaker, reconditioned, reformist, regenerative, remedial, renovated, restorer), ‏المصلح (peacemaker, regenerator, renovator, repairer). (various references)

Bulgarian		реформатор, преобразовател (transformer), деец на реформацията. (various references)

Chinese		�"�革者 . (various references)

Czech		reformátor. (various references)

Farsi		پیشوای جنبش , مصلح (Peacemaker, Righter), اصلاح طلب , بهسازگر, بهساز. (various references)

Finnish		reformaattori, yhteiskunnan parantaja, uskonpuhdistaja. (various references)

French		reformeur. (various references)

German		Reformer (reformers). (various references)

Greek		αναμορφωτήσ (reformist, uplifter). (various references)

Hebrew		מתקן (corrector, repairer), רפורמטור. (various references)

Hungarian		reformátor, újító személy, reformáló oszlop. (various references)

Indonesian		pembaharu. (various references)

Italian		riformatore. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�革者 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かいかくしゃ. (various references)

Manx		aachummeyder (adapter, adapter person), aachrootagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		eformerray

Portuguese		reformista (reformist), reformador, partidário de reformas. (various references)

Romanian		revoluţionar (incendiary, revolutionary, revolutionist), reformator (reformative, reformatory, reforming, reorganizer), partizan al reformei lui luther. (various references)

Russian		реформатор. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		reformator. (various references)

Spanish		reformador. (various references)

Swedish		reformator (reformist). (various references)

Turkish		reformcu (corrector, improver, reformist), yenilikçi (avant garde, go ahead, hipster, improver, innovator, modernist, reformist), devrimci (reformist, revolutionary), düzelten kimse (adjuster, corrector, improver, refiner), ıslahatçı (reformist). (various references)

Ukranian		реформатор, перетворювач (transformer). (various references)

Vietnamese		nh� cải cách. (various references)

Welsh		diwygiwr (revivalist). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Reformer

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reformer": reformers. (additional references)
	Words ending with "reformer": counterreformer. (additional references)
	Words containing "reformer": counterreformers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reformer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preformer, Reforma, reforme, Reformi, reformr. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Reformer"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reformer" (pronounced rufô"rmer)
5	-f ô" r m er	former, informer, performer, transformer.
4	-ô" r m er	dormer, warmer.
3	-r m er	armer, Armor, armour, charmer, farmer, Harmer.
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Anagrams: Reformer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-m-o-r-r-r"
	-2 letters: formee, former, reform.
	-3 letters: error, forme, freer, frere, frore, merer, ormer, refer.
	-4 letters: feme, fere, fore, form, free, froe, from, mere, more, omer, reef.
	-5 letters: eme, emf, ere, err, fee, fem, fer, foe, for, fro, mor, ore, ree, ref, rem, roe, rom.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-m-o-r-r-r"
	+1 letter: performer, reformers.
	+2 letters: performers.
	+3 letters: forevermore, furthermore, terraformed.
	+4 letters: irreformable, nonperformer.
	+5 letters: counterreform, interferogram, nonperformers, reformatories, refractometer, refractometry, retransformed.
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