rebate

See also: rebaté

English

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

Alternative forms

• rabate (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːbeɪt/, /ɹəˈbeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• rebate plane

Translations

A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement

• Bulgarian: отстъпка (bg) f (otstǎpka)
• Esperanto: rabato (eo)
• Finnish: hinnanalennus (fi)
• French: rabais (fr) m
• German: Ermäßigung (de) f
• Indonesian: rabat (id)
• Malay: rebat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rabatt

• Ottoman Turkish: اكرام (ikram)
• Portuguese: desconto (pt) m, abatimento (pt) m
• Russian: ски́дка (ru) f (skídka), усту́пка (ru) f (ustúpka)
• Slovene: popust m
• Swedish: avdrag (sv) n
• Turkish: indirim (tr)

The return of part of an amount already paid

• Finnish: hyvitys (fi), palautus (fi)
• French: remise (fr) f
• German: Rückzahlung (de) f, Rückvergütung f
• Russian: возвра́т ча́сти платежа́ (vozvrát části platežá)
• Slovene: povračilo n
• Swedish: avdrag (sv) n
• Turkish: para iadesi

rabbet — see rabbet

Further reading

• rebate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rebate in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• PhotoNotes.org Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography

Verb

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.
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

     he began a little to rebate from certain points of popery

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[.]

Translations

To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment

• Bulgarian: отстъпвам (bg) (otstǎpvam), правя отстъпка (pravja otstǎpka)
• Esperanto: rabati

To diminish or lessen something

• Bulgarian: отслабвам (bg) (otslabvam)
• Finnish: vähentää (fi), heikentää (fi)

To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something

• Albanian: vetulloj (sq)

Anagrams

• Bartee, beater, berate, betear, erbate, rebeat

Portuguese

Verb

rebate

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

Romanian

Etymology

From re- +‎ bate.

Verb

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

1. to retype
2. to restrike

Conjugation

    conjugation of rebate (third conjugation, past participle in -ut)

infinitive			a rebate
gerund			rebatând
past participle			rebatut
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	rebat	rebați	rebate	rebatem	rebateți	rebat
	imperfect	rebateam	rebateai	rebatea	rebateam	rebateați	rebateau
	simple perfect	rebatui	rebatuși	rebatu	rebaturăm	rebaturăți	rebatură
	pluperfect	rebatusem	rebatuseși	rebatuse	rebatuserăm	rebatuserăți	rebatuseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să rebat	să rebați	să rebată	să rebatem	să rebateți	să rebată
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		rebate			rebateți
	negative		nu rebate			nu rebateți

Spanish

Verb

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