![]() ![]() " The musicians took five during the rehearsal" Take a short break from one's activities in order to relax. ~ catch one's breath, take a breather, rest, breathe " We interrupt the program for the following messages" " We pause for station identification" " let's break for lunch" " Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered"Ĭease an action temporarily. " The man scrupled to perjure himself"Īct later than planned, scheduled, or required. ![]() " He hemmed and hawed when asked to address the crowd" Utter `hems' and `haws' indicated hesitation. Interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing. " a halt in the arms race" " a nuclear freeze" The act of suspending activity temporarily.Īn interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement. " we took a 10-minute break" " he took time out to recuperate" " there was never a letup in the noise"Ī pause from doing something (as work). " each team has two time-outs left"Ī pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished. " people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests"Ī brief suspension of play. " instant replay caused too long a delay" " he ordered a hold in the action"Īn intermission between the first and second half of a game.Ī pause for relaxation. Time during which some action is awaited. ~ delay, postponement, time lag, wait, hold " after an ominous caesura the preacher continued"Īn inadvertent interruption in a broadcast during which there is no sound. #RESPITE REST SYNONYM BREAK TV#" a lapse of three weeks between letters"Ī suspension of radio or tv broadcasting.Ī pause or interruption (as in a conversation). break, intermission, interruption, pause, suspensionĪ time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something.Ī definite length of time marked off by two instants.Ī break or intermission in the occurrence of something. The dieresis is not used over other vowels than e when re is prefixed : thus, reinforce, reunite, reabolish.Dictionary Binisaya to English English to Binisaya Senseġ. The hyphen is also sometimes used to bring out emphatically the sense of repetition or iteration : as, sung and re-sung. or else the second e has a dieresis over it: as, reëstablish, reëmbark, etc. Prefixed to a word beginning with e, re- is separated by a hyphen, as re-establish, re-estate, re-edify, etc. It was used from Middle English in forming words from Germanic as well as Latin elements ( rebuild, refill, reset, rewrite), and was used so even in Old French ( regret, regard, reward, etc.). In a few words it is reduced to r-, as in ransom (a doublet of redemption), rampart, etc. recomfort (v.) "to comfort, console encourage " recourse (n.) "a process, way, course." Recover in Middle English also could mean "obtain, win" (happiness, a kingdom, etc.) with no notion of getting something back, also "gain the upper hand, overcome arrive at " also consider the legal sense of recovery as "obtain (property) by judgment or legal proceedings."Īnd, due to sound changes and accent shifts, re- sometimes entirely loses its identity as a prefix ( rebel, relic, remnant, restive, rest (n.2) "remainder," rally (v.1) "bring together"). There seem to have been more such words in Middle English than after, e.g. Often merely intensive, and in many of the older borrowings from French and Latin the precise sense of re- is forgotten, lost in secondary senses, or weakened beyond recognition, so that it has no apparent semantic content ( receive, recommend, recover, reduce, recreate, refer, religion, remain, request, require). OED writes that it is "impossible to attempt a complete record of all the forms resulting from its use," and adds that "The number of these is practically infinite. The many meanings in the notion of "back" give re- its broad sense-range: "a turning back opposition restoration to a former state "transition to an opposite state." From the extended senses in "again," re- becomes "repetition of an action," and in this sense it is extremely common as a formative element in English, applicable to any verb. In some English words from French and Italian re- appears as ra- and the following consonant is often doubled (see rally (v.1)). In earliest Latin the prefix became red- before vowels and h-, a form preserved in redact, redeem, redolent, redundant, redintegrate, and, in disguise, render (v.). Watkins (2000) describes this as a "Latin combining form conceivably from Indo-European *wret-, metathetical variant of *wert- "to turn." De Vaan says the "only acceptable etymology" for it is a 2004 explanation which reconstructs a root in PIE *ure "back." ![]() 1200, from Old French re- and directly from Latin re- an inseparable prefix meaning "again back anew, against." Word-forming element meaning "back, back from, back to the original place " also "again, anew, once more," also conveying the notion of "undoing" or "backward," etc. ![]()
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