rebate

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English

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the rebates of this cinema film include both the clear portions, with sprocket holes, and the all-black portion of the both edges

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Etymology

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From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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rebate (plural rebates)

A rebate (rabbet) for joining wood
  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
    • 2014 September 11, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: The dangers of abestos roofs [print version: Where can I find help – at the double?, 6 September 2014, p. P13]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)[1]:
      For your existing windows, the glazing rebates will also have to be deepened to provide the extra gap.
  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.

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Verb

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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.
    • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
      But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
    • 1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XI:
      Then near the corslet, at the monarch’s heart,
      With all his strength, the youth directs his dart:
      But the broad belt, with plates of silver bound,
      The point rebated, and repell’d the wound.
  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.
    • 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:
      The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]

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Portuguese

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Verb

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rebate

  1. inflection of rebater:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Etymology

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From re- +‎ bate.

Verb

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a rebate (third-person singular present rebat, past participle rebătut) 3rd conj.

  1. to retype
  2. to restrike

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Spanish

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Verb

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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