Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To impart fresh life to; refresh mentally or physically.
- intransitive verb To take recreation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To revive or refresh after toil or exertion; reanimate, as languid spirits or exhausted strength; amuse; divert; gratify.
- Synonyms To reanimate, enliven, cheer, entertain.
- To take recreation.
- To create anew: often written distinctively re-create.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To take recreation.
- transitive verb To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
create anew . - verb transitive To give new
life ,energy orencouragement (to); torefresh ,enliven . - verb reflexive To
enjoy or entertain oneself. - verb intransitive To take
recreation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- verb give encouragement to
- verb give new life or energy to
- verb create anew
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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While, the absence of dialogues, the lack of colors and the intertitles recreate the look and feel of early mute films.
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With all of the digital display talk going around, you tend to forget what those displays are actually trying to recreate, which is really very organic smears on a thin fabric.
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You may want to retry the WaitNamedPipe a couple of time before calling recreate the namedpipe handle.
MSDN Blogs 2009
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I mean that in the same way as if I were to attempt to "recreate" KDE in some other operating system.
Lifehacker’s Guide To Upgrading To Windows 7 RC | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Well, "recreate" maybe - we've had them in the past.
How to make a cool $2MM+ in one day -- with a sparkle pony 2010
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I mean that in the same way as if I were to attempt to "recreate" KDE in some other operating system.
Lifehacker’s Guide To Upgrading To Windows 7 RC | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I think it used actors to "recreate" the divorce, however, which is why it was so much classier than Judge Judy and the real nutballs appearing there.
"Arguing with Judge Judy: Popular 'Logic' on TV Judge Shows." Ann Althouse 2009
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Nine-year member Christina Kitson, known in the SCA as Xristiana Bogardus, said the term "recreate" is preferred because there are certain aspects of the medieval time period intentionally omitted, such as slavery, sexism and lack of bathing.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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Nine-year member Christina Kitson, known in the SCA as Xristiana Bogardus, said the term "recreate" is preferred because there are certain aspects of the medieval time period intentionally omitted, such as slavery, sexism and lack of bathing.
Society of Creative Anachronism and the Belegarth Medieval Combat society 2007
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The BBC has not yet worked out how to 'recreate' a Beethoven symphony school children in Camden bashing castanets and drums?
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