rebate

English Online Dictionary. What means rebate‎? What does rebate mean?

English

Alternative forms

• rabate (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːbeɪt/, /ɹəˈbeɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

rebate (plural rebates)

1. A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
2. The return of part of an amount already paid.
3. (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
4. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.

   Coordinate terms: mortise, tenon
5. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
6. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
7. A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

Derived terms

• rebate plane

Translations

Further reading

• rebate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rebate in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• PhotoNotes.org Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography

Verb

rebate (third-person singular simple present rebates, present participle rebating, simple past and past participle rebated)

1. (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
2. (transitive) To diminish or lessen something
3. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
4. (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something

   Synonym: rabbet

5. To abate; to withdraw.
6. (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².

Translations

Anagrams

• Bartee, beater, berate, betear, erbate, rebeat

Portuguese

Verb

rebate

1. inflection of rebater:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

From re- +‎ bate.

Verb

a rebate (third-person singular present rebat, past participle rebătut) 3rd conjugation

1. to retype
2. to restrike

Conjugation

Spanish

Verb

rebate

1. inflection of rebatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of rebatir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative