ret

See also: Ret. and rét

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Abbreviation

ret

1. retired

Translations

retired

• Greek: ε.α. (el) (e.a.)

Verb

ret (third-person singular simple present rets, present participle retting, simple past and past participle retted)

1. (transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 621:

     the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring

Derived terms

• retter

Translations

to soak linen, hemp etc.

• Finnish: liottaa (fi)

Anagrams

• ERT
• RTÉ

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Catalan

Verb

ret

1. Third-person singular present indicative form of retre.
2. Second-person singular imperative form of retre.

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rъtъ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ret m

1. lip

Derived terms

• rtěnka f

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Danish

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛt/, [ʁɑd̥]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós.

Adjective

ret (neuter ret, definite and plural rette)

1. straight
2. right, proper
3. rightful
4. plain (in knitting)

Adverb

ret

1. straight
2. rightly, properly
3. rather, quite

Etymology 2

Maybe from Middle Low German richte.

Noun

ret c (singular definite retten, plural indefinite retter)

1. (uncountable) right, justice, law
2. court, courtroom, lawcourt
3. dish, course
4. (uncountable) right side (e.g. of a fabric)

Inflection

Inflection of ret

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ret	retten	retter	retterne
genitive	rets	rettens	retters	retternes

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Lojban

Rafsi

ret

1. rafsi of preti.

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English red.

Adjective

ret

1. red