French–English dictionary

rebattu

Repeated too often.

Rébecca

A en given name, in regular use since the Reformation.

rebelle

Alienated or estranged, often with hostile effect; rebellious, resentful; disloyal; malcontent.

rebeller

(intransitive) To resist or become defiant toward an authority.

rebond

The recoil of an object bouncing off another.

rebondi

Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.

rebondir

(transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.

rebord

(architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.

rebrousser chemin

(intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.

rebroussier

A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people, usually because of nonconformity or spite. [from mid 20th c.]

rebroussière

A person who likes or tends to express a contradicting viewpoint, especially from one held by a majority of people, usually because of nonconformity or spite. [from mid 20th c.]

rebuffade

A sudden resistance or refusal.

rébus

An arrangement of pictures, symbols, and/or words representing phrases or words, especially as a word puzzle.

rebuter

(transitive) To cause to dislike; to discourage (from doing).

récalcitrance

The state of being recalcitrant.

récalcitrant

Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control (whether in a noisy manner or not).

recaler

(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.

recalibrer

To calibrate for a second or subsequent time.

récapitulation

(theology) The symmetry provided by Christ's life to the teachings of the Old Testament; the summation of human experience in Jesus Christ.

récapituler

(ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.

recapturer

To capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss.

recel

Receiving and buying of stolen goods.

receleur

(informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

recéleuse

(informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.

récemment

Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.

recensement

(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

recensement de la population

(cellular automata) A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.

récent

Having happened a short while ago.

réceptacle

A container.

récepteur

A person who receives.

réceptif

Ready to receive something, especially new concepts or ideas.

réception

The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.

réceptionniste

An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.

réceptivité

the characteristic of being receptive

recès

(countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.

récessif

(genetics) Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait.

récession

(economics) A period of reduced economic activity

recette

Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

recevabilité

The state or quality of being admissible or allowable.

recevable

(legal) Affording grounds for legal action.

receveur

(baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

receveuse

(baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

recevoir

(radio) To receive a transmission successfully.

rechange

Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.

recharger

To load (something) again.

réchauffement de l'atmosphère

(figuratively) A period of relaxation, of reduced reserve, tension, or hostility or of increased friendliness or understanding.

réchauffer

(transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").

recherche

An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.

rechercher

(intransitive) To conduct an inquiry or examination.

rechute

The act or situation of relapsing.

rechuter

(intransitive) To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.

récidive

Committing new offenses after a crime committed in the past.

récidiver

(intransitive) To return to criminal behaviour; to relapse.

récif

A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.

récipiendaire

One who receives.

récipient

An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.

réciprocité

(grammar) A reciprocal construction involves two noun phrases where each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to the other. see: Wikipedia:Reciprocal pronoun.

réciproque

(logic) Of a proposition or theorem consisting of a statement of the form "If A is true, then B is true", the statement "If B is true, then A is true" which need not be equivalent to the first one.

réciproquement

(idiomatic) In a reciprocal manner; in a similar way; in the same kind.

réciproquer

(transitive) To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.

recircuiter

(transitive) To change the route taken by something.

récit

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. [from c. 1300]

réciter

To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.

réclamation

A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

réclame

(marketing) A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar.

réclamer

(transitive, rare) To salute or praise with great approval; to compliment; to applaud; to welcome enthusiastically.

reclus

A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.

recluse

A person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit.

reco

(chiefly, US, military slang) reconnaissance.

recoin

A hidden or secluded spot; a secluded retreat.

récollet

A member of a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known as the Franciscans.

récolte

The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

récolté à la main

Picked by hand rather than by machinery.

récolter

(transitive) To bring in a harvest; reap; glean.

récolteur

One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

recommandation

Information about a person, provided by someone (a referee) with whom they are well acquainted.

recommandatoire

Of or pertaining to a recommendation

recommandé

(mail service) Having a mailed item recorded in a register to enable its location to be tracked, sometimes with added insurance to cover loss.

recommander

(transitive) To entrust or commit to the care of someone else.

recommencer

To begin again.

récompense

A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.

récompenser

(transitive) To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.

recompter

To count again.

réconciliation

(theology, often with capitalized initial) The reconciliation of God and mankind through the death of Jesus.

réconcilier

(ambitransitive) To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.

réconfort

(uncountable) Comfort, support or sympathy.

réconfortant

Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.

reconnaissable

Noticeably different from others; distinctive.

reconnaissable entre mille

Unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.

reconnaissable entre tous

Unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.

reconnaissance

The state of being accepted.

reconnaissant

Of a person or their actions, feelings, etc.: expressing gratitude or appreciation; appreciative, thankful.

reconnaître

(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.

reconnecter

(ambitransitive) To connect again or differently.

reconnu

Notable; distinguished; honored.

reconquérir

To conquer again.

reconsidération

The act of reconsidering or something reconsidered.

reconsidérer

(ambitransitive) To consider a matter again.

reconstitution

The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.

reconstruire

To assemble again.

record

The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.

recourir

(intransitive) To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.

recours

(legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.

recouvert

Overlaid (with) or enclosed (within something).

recouvrement

(law) The process of pursuing payments of debts owed by individuals or businesses.

recouvrer

(transitive) To claim something back; to repossess.

recouvrir

(transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

récré

(Australia, Britain, North America, Philippines, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.

récréation

(UK) A break for schoolchildren between lessons.

récréationnel

For, or relating to, recreation.

recréer

(sometimes, proscribed) .

récrire

(transitive) To write again, differently; to modify; to revise.

recroqueviller

(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.

recrudescence

(medicine, by extension) The acute recurrence of a disease, or its symptoms, after a period of improvement.

recrue

A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

recrutement

The process or art of finding candidates for a post in an organization, or recruits for the armed forces.

recruter

(transitive, US) To conscript (a person); to force (a person) to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.

rectal

Of, via or related to the rectum.

rectangle

(geometry) Any quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.

rectangulaire

Having a shape like a rectangle.

recteur

A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.

rectification

A substitution for an error or mistake.

rectifier

(transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right. [from 16th c.]

rectiligne

Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length. [from 14th c.]

rection

(grammar, linguistics) The relationship between a word and its dependents.

rectitude

Straightness; the state or quality of having a constant direction and not being crooked or bent. [from 15th c.]

rectrice

A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.

rectum

(anatomy) The terminal part of the large intestine through which feces pass after exiting the colon, but before leaving the body through the anus or cloaca.

reçu

A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.

recueil

(set theory, topology, analysis) A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.

recueillir

(transitive) To gather together; amass.

recuire

(metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

recul

Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.

reculé

Distant; remote in space.

reculer

(nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

récupération

The act or process of regaining or repossession of something lost.

récupérer

(transitive) To get; particularly, get from someone.

récurer

(transitive) To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.

récurrent

Recurring; happening time after time.

récursivité

The quality of being recursive.

récuser

(transitive, proscribed) To deny the truth or correctness of (something).

recyclage

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

recycler

(transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.

rédacteur

(marketing, advertising) A person who writes advertising copy (the text used in advertisements).

rédaction

An act or instance of something being edited.

rédactionnel

Of or relating to an editor, editing or an editorial.

reddition

An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.

redécouvrir

(transitive) To discover again; especially something previously lost or forgotten.

redéfinir

(object-oriented, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.

redémarrage

(computing) An instance of rebooting.