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Definitions: Refresher |
RefresherNoun1. (British) a fee (in addition to that marked on the brief) paid to counsel in a case that lasts more than one day. 2. A drink that refreshes; "he stopped at the bar for a quick refresher. 3. A course that reviews and updates a topic for those who have not kept abreast of developments. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "refresher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
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Labor | . . refreshers. . . : such programs should be for people who are already well-qualified, to provide a freshening up, a brushing up, and a source of new information. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Refresher A fee paid to a barrister daily in addition to his retaining fee, to remind him of the case intrusted to his charge. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: RefresherSynonym: refresher course (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Refresher |
| English words defined with "refresher": refresher course. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "refresher": airplane pilot, chief ♦ CHIEF PILOT ♦ MANAGER, EDUCATION AND TRAINING ♦ refresher program ♦ training administrator, training instructor, TRAINING REPRESENTATIVE. (references) |
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Screenplays | You know, right upstairs there are refresher rooms, warm beds, nice big nutri-steaks, and what are we doing? (Space Raiders; writing credit: Howard R. Cohen) | |
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 | [American Nursing Corps attend refresher course in the control and extinguishing of fires].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Army nurses undergo refresher course in the control and extinguishing of fires].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Business | Besides these colleges there are also many smaller institutions that offer short courses and refresher courses. (references) | |
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| "Refresher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Refresher" is used about 70 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) | 100% | 70 | 39,981 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "refresher": paint refresher ♦ refresher and updating courses ♦ refresher course ♦ refresher program. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "refresher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pije freskuese (cooler, refreshing drink, refreshment), përmendore (memorial, monument, touching), honorar suplementar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منحة إضافية, شراب منعش. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разхладително питие, опреснителен курс (refresher course), някой който освежава, нещо което освежава, бакшиш (baksheesh, bakshish, douceur, fee, gratification, gratuity, perks, perquisite, tip), подкуп (boodle, bribe, drop, fix, graft, grease, hush money, oil, palm grease, palm oil, payoff, payola, subornation, sugarplum, sweetener, vail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 清凉饮料. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | opakovací kurs (refresher course). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | syrligt drops (refresher acid flavoured boiled sweet, refreshing sweet), efteruddannelse af laerere (refresher courses for teachers, retraining for teachers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zuurtje (acid bonbon, acid drop, acid drops, acidulated sweet, bonbon, candy, lozenge, refresher acid flavoured boiled sweet, refreshing sweet, sour candy, sweet), zomerdrups (refresher acid flavoured boiled sweet, refreshing sweet), herscholing en bijscholing van leerkrachten (refresher courses for teachers, retraining for teachers), herhalingscursus (refresher course), bij-en nascholingscursussen (refresher and updating courses), applicatiecursus voor leerkrachten (refresher courses for teachers, retraining for teachers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تازه کننده , طراوات بخش . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kertauskurssi (refresher course). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | programme de mise jour (refresher program), boisson pour se rafraîchir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Erfrischung (refection, refreshment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπληρωματική αμοιβή δικηγόρου, υπενθυμίζων (reminiscent), αναζωογονών, δροσίζων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קורס "שתלמות (refresher course). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | felfrissítés, élénkítõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penataran (refresher course, upgrading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ristorativo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | coorse ooree, aanoaghey (rejuvenate, renew, renewal, renovate, renovation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | efresherray refrigerante (coolant, cooler, cooling agent, frigate, refrigerant, refrigerating, refrigeratory, soft drink), refrescante (cooling, dewy, refrigerant), refeição leve (collation, light signalling, refection, snack, snacks, tiffin), lembrete (reminder), lembrança (felicity, keepsake, memento, memory, mind, recollection, relic, remembrance, reminder, souvenir). (various references) lucru ce împrospãteazã memoria, bãuturã rãcoritoare (mug, refection, refreshment). (various references) выпивка (boose, booze, libation, load on, wampo), освежающий напиток (freshener), напоминание (memento, reminder), памятка (jotting). (various references) osveženje (refreshment, refreshments), osvežavajući napitak. (various references) refresco (cooling, freshen, non-alcoholic beverage, refection, refreshment, tonic). (various references) förfriskning (refection, refreshment), extra advokatarvode. (various references) tazeleyen şey, serinletici içki (refreshment), hayat veren (genial, life giving, regenerative), hafızayı canlandıran şey, ferahlatıcı (refreshing), avukatlık ek ücreti. (various references) освіжаючий напій, нагадування (memento, reminder). (various references) để b"i dưỡng lại, ôn luyện lại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "refresher": refreshers. (additional references) | |
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"Refresher" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: refreshen. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "refresher" (pronounced rufre"sher) |
| 5 | -f r e" sh er | fresher. |
| 4 | -r e" sh er | pressure, Thresher. |
| 3 | -e" sh er | Flesher. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-h-r-r-r-s" | |
-2 letters: fresher, reefers, refresh, sheerer, shereef. | |
-3 letters: freers, freres, reefer, refers. | |
-4 letters: feres, freer, frees, frere, fresh, heres, reefs, refer, resee, serer, sheer. | |
-5 letters: errs, fees, fehs, fere, free, here, hers, reef, rees, refs, resh, seer, sere, serf. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-f-h-r-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: refreshers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 66 72 65 73 68 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ..-. .-. . ... .... . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100110 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e f r e s h e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0066 0072 0065 0073 0068 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527172847185747184 |
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