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Definitions: Recapitulate |
RecapitulateVerb1. Summarize briefly; "Let's recapitulate the main ideas". 2. Repeat an earlier theme of a musical composition. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "recapitulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonyms: RecapitulateSynonyms: recap (v), repeat (v), reprise (v), reprize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Compendium | Recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up. |
Description | Verb: describe; set forth; (state); draw a picture, picture; portray; (represent); characterize, particularize; narrate, relate, recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's battles over again. |
Numeration | Verb: number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up; tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots. algebraize. |
Repetition | Rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate, reword. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Recapitulate |
| English words defined with "recapitulate": recap ♦ To repeat signals. (references) |
| "Recapitulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.63% of the time. "Recapitulate" is used about 32 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) | 90.63% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "recapitulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | radhit (align, Aline, compose, range, rank, recite), radhis (align, Aline, range, rank), përsërit (duplicate, echo, ingeminate, recite, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, renew, repeat, replicate, reword, say over), përsëris (duplicate, echo, ingeminate, recite, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, renew, repeat, replicate, reword, say over), përmbledh (abridge, abstract, brief, collect, compress, condense, precis, sum up, summarize), numëroj (count, enumerate, number, numerate, reckon, recount, rehearse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لخص برؤوس أقلا, لخص (abridge, abstract, brief, condense, digest, epitomize, recap, sum, summarize), أعاد بإختصار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | резюмирам (epitomize, precis, recap, resume, skeletonize, summarize), преговарям (negotiate, parley, recap, review, revise, transact, treat with), правя преглед на (pass over, review), повтарям накратко (summarize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 概述 (Outline, Outlined, Outlining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rekapitulovat (sum up), shrnout (epitomize, recap, ruffle, sum, sum up, summarize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | صفات ارثی رادرطی چندنسل تکراری کردن , رءوس مطالب راتکرارکردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toistaa pääkohdittain, kerrata (repeat, revise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | récapituler (recap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | rekapitulieren (recap, to recapitulate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανακεφαλαιώνω (sum up), ανακεφαλαιώ (perorate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לסכם בראשי פרקים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | röviden összefoglal (precis, to boil down, to précis, to recap, to recapitulate), ismétel (re echo, reiterate, repeat, replicate, to chant, to iterate, to recap, to recapitulate, to rehearse, to reiterate, to repeat, to replicate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengihtisarkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | riepilogare (recap), ricapitolare (recap, run over, run through, sum up, summarise, summarize), riassumere (abridge, abstract, brief, digest, epitomise, epitomize, reassume, re-engage, sum up, summarise, summarize, take on again). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goll harrish reesht (recapitulation), aacheimnaghey (recapitulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecapitulateray repetir sumariamente, recapitular (recap, review, run over), passar em revista (inspection, review). (various references) rezuma (abbreviate, abstract, brief, capsule, digest, epitomize, precis, resume, summarize), repeta (con, go over, ingeminate, iterate, re echo, reaffirm, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, repeat, resound, review), recapitula (recap, resume, sum). (various references) резюмировать (epitomize, summarize). (various references) rekapitulirati. (various references) recapitular (sum up). (various references) rekapitulera. (various references) สรุปความ (summate). (various references) yinelemek (iterate, quote, recur, renew, repeat), yeniden özetlemek, tekrarlamak (duplicate, go over, ingeminate, iterate, play back, rebroadcast, recap, recrudesce, recur, re-enact, rehearse, reiterate, relapse, renew, repeat, replicate, retell, return, revise, say, say over). (various references) резюмувати (abstract, brief, epitomize, perorate, resume, sum up, summarize), коротко повторювати, конспектувати (epitomize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "recapitulate": recapitulated, recapitulates. (additional references) | |
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"Recapitulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: recapitalate, recapitalise, recapitalize, recapitlate, recapitulator, recapitulatory, recaptiulate, recaptulate, recaputulate, recupitulate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "recapitulate" (pronounced rē'kupi"khulā't) |
| 5 | -kh u l ā' t | congratulate, postulate. |
| 4 | -u l ā' t | accumulate, adulate, annihilate, articulate, assimilate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, recalculate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate. |
| 3 | -l ā' t | angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-l-p-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: particulate. | |
-2 letters: altarpiece, articulate, capitulate, reticulate. | |
-3 letters: aliterate, altercate, apiculate, capitular, crepitate, elutriate, reluctate, replicate, retaliate. | |
-4 letters: acierate, aculeate, apatetic, capitate, capitula, catapult, cultrate, eructate, lacerate, laterite, laureate, literate, parietal, particle, pearlite, peculate, peculiar, piacular, placater, praelect, prelatic, raclette, reticula, reticule, tailrace, tractile, ulcerate, urticate. | |
-5 letters: acerate, acetate, actuate, apatite, apteral, apteria, arcuate, arietta, ariette, article, atelier, aureate, auricle, calipee, caliper, caltrap, capelet, capital, capture, carpale, cattail, cattier, citrate, clatter, clutter, cuittle, culprit, cupeler, cuprite, curette, curtail, curtate, epaulet, epicure, eucrite, iterate, lactate, lattice, lecture, lettuce, leucite, palette, paretic, partial, partita, partite, partlet, peatier, pectate, peculia, peltate, percale, perlite, petrale, pettier, picrate, picture, pileate, placate, plaiter, plateau, platier, platter, pleater, plectra, pleurae, plicate, prattle, prelate, prelect, puerile, puttier, rattail, receipt, recital, replace, replate, replica, reptile, reticle, retitle, tactile, tactual, tapetal, teacart, tertial, tiercel, tipcart, titular, treacle, triplet, tuatera, tutelar, uralite, utricle. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-l-p-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: recapitulated, recapitulates. | |
+3 letters: therapeutically. | |
+5 letters: australopithecine. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 63 61 70 69 74 75 6C 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . -.-. .- .--. .. - ..- .-.. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100011 01100001 01110000 01101001 01110100 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e c a p i t u l a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0063 0061 0070 0069 0074 0075 006C 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527169678275868778678671 |
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