rebate

rebate

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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 conj.

  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

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