rekapitulieren — meaning in English
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English meaning
- guess verb To form an answer or opinion without being sure it's correct.
- recapitulate verb To go over the main points of something again, briefly.
- revise verb To change or correct something, especially a piece of writing, in order to improve it.
Senses
rekapitulieren is used for these senses in English:
- guess (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
- recapitulate (ambitransitive) To summarize or repeat in concise form.
- recapitulate (transitive, biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
- revise (obsolete) To look at again, to reflect on.
guess — full definition
- verb To form an answer or opinion without being sure it's correct.
- verb To suppose or think something is probably true.
- noun An answer or opinion given without certain knowledge.
recapitulate — full definition
- verb To go over the main points of something again, briefly.
- verb To have a structure or function that closely matches something else.
- verb To pass through stages of development that closely match earlier stages in a species' evolution.
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