rebate
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See also: rebaté
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːbeɪt/, /ɹəˈbeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪt
Noun
[edit]rebate (plural rebates)
- A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
- The return of part of an amount already paid.
- (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
- A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
- 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.
- A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
- An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
- A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement
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The return of part of an amount already paid
rabbet — see rabbet
Further reading
[edit]- rebate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Rebate in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- PhotoNotes.org Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography
Verb
[edit]rebate (third-person singular simple present rebates, present participle rebating, simple past and past participle rebated)
- (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
- (transitive) To diminish or lessen something
- 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.
- (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
- Synonym: rabbet
- 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
- (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
[edit]To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
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To diminish or lessen something
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]rebate
- inflection of rebater:
Romanian
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[edit]Verb
[edit]a rebate (third-person singular present rebat, past participle rebătut) 3rd conj.
Conjugation
[edit] conjugation of rebate (third conjugation, past participle in -ut)
infinitive | a rebate | ||||||
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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
[edit]Verb
[edit]rebate
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