reformer

See also: Reformer and réformer

English

Etymology

reform +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)

Noun

reformer (plural reformers)

1. One who reforms, or who works for reform.
2. (historical, Christianity) One who was involved in the Reformation.
   • 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London: [s.n.], 1870], →OCLC, page 127:

     […] for I long to ſee a larke without a creaſt, and would travaile farre to diſcoover a reformer without a fault, […]

3. (chemical engineering, fuel cells) A device which converts hydrocarbons into a hydrogen-rich mixture of gases.
   • 2004, Evelyn Brown, “Argonne tests and creates the fuel cells to power the future”, in Evelyn Brown, editor, Logos‎^[1], volume 22, number 1, page 15:

     The fuel reformer works somewhat like catalytic converters in cars. In the gasoline reformer, vaporized gasoline is mixed with steam and air before traveling through a cylinder packed with the new Argonne catalyst. The result is a hydrogen-rich gas that is further processed in subsequent chemical steps and is then fed to the fuel cell.

4. (petrochemistry) A device used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas, typically having low octane ratings, into high-octane liquid products called reformates.
   • 1979 December, Alaska Petrochemical Company, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Draft[:] Environmental Impact Statement‎^[2], page 29:

     Deisohexanizer bottoms are routed to the continuous reformer, where the octane of the stream is upgraded chiefly by conversion of naphthenes and paraffins to high octane aromatic compounds.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “one who reforms”): traditionalist

Derived terms

• catalytic reformer
• spelling reformer

Translations

one who reforms, or who works for reform

• Arabic: مُصْلِح m (muṣliḥ)
• Belarusian: рэформа́тар m (reformátar)
• Bulgarian: реформа́тор (bg) m (reformátor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 改革家 (zh) (gǎigéjiā)

• Czech: reformátor (cs) m
• Danish: reformator c
• Dutch: hervormer (nl) m, hervormster f
• Finnish: uudistaja (fi)
• German: Reformer (de) m, Reformerin (de) f
• Irish: leasaitheoir m
• Japanese: リフォーマー (rifōmā), 改革家 (かいかくか, kaikakuka)
• Kazakh: реформалаушы (reformalauşy), реформатор (reformator)
• Korean: 개혁가(改革家) (gaehyeokga)
• Latin: refōrmātor m
• Macedonian: реформа́тор m (reformátor)
• Malay: reformis, pembaharu
• Manx: aachrootagh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: reformator m

  Nynorsk: reformator m

• Polish: reformator (pl) m, reformatorka (pl) f
• Russian: реформа́тор (ru) m (reformátor)
• Scottish Gaelic: ath-leasachair m, leasachair m
• Slovak: reformátor m
• Swahili: mwanamageuzi
• Swedish: reformator (sv) c
• Tagalog: tagamulinyo
• Ukrainian: реформа́тор m (reformátor)

one who was involved in the Reformation

• Dutch: hervormer (nl) m
• German: Reformator (de) m, Reformatorin (de) f
• Hungarian: reformátor (hu)
• Latin: refōrmātor m
• Swedish: reformator (sv)

Anagrams

• rereform

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

reformer

1. to reform, to get/put back together

Conjugation

Conjugation of reformer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reformer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	reformant /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reformé /ʁə.fɔʁ.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reforme /ʁə.fɔʁm/	reformes /ʁə.fɔʁm/	reforme /ʁə.fɔʁm/	reformons /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɔ̃/	reformez /ʁə.fɔʁ.me/	reforment /ʁə.fɔʁm/
	imperfect	reformais /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɛ/	reformais /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɛ/	reformait /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɛ/	reformions /ʁə.fɔʁ.mjɔ̃/	reformiez /ʁə.fɔʁ.mje/	reformaient /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɛ/
	past historic2	reformai /ʁə.fɔʁ.me/	reformas /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma/	reforma /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma/	reformâmes /ʁə.fɔʁ.mam/	reformâtes /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/	reformèrent /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɛʁ/
	future	reformerai /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁe/	reformeras /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁa/	reformera /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁa/	reformerons /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/	reformerez /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁe/	reformeront /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reformerais /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	reformerais /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	reformerait /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/	reformerions /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	reformeriez /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁje/	reformeraient /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	reforme /ʁə.fɔʁm/	reformes /ʁə.fɔʁm/	reforme /ʁə.fɔʁm/	reformions /ʁə.fɔʁ.mjɔ̃/	reformiez /ʁə.fɔʁ.mje/	reforment /ʁə.fɔʁm/
	imperfect2	reformasse /ʁə.fɔʁ.mas/	reformasses /ʁə.fɔʁ.mas/	reformât /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma/	reformassions /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/	reformassiez /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.sje/	reformassent /ʁə.fɔʁ.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reforme /ʁə.fɔʁm/	—	reformons /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɔ̃/	reformez /ʁə.fɔʁ.me/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants

• → Turkish: reforme (via past participle)

Further reading

• “reformer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Comment-conjuguer.fr - online conjugation of "reformer"

Latin

Verb

refōrmer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of refōrmō

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

reformer m

1. indefinite plural of reform

Verb

reformer

1. imperative of reformere

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

reformer f

1. indefinite plural of reform

Swedish

Noun

reformer

1. indefinite plural of reform