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Reification
- noun - regarding something abstract as a material thing
- representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality; "according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual"
Remain Down
- verb - be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten
Replication
- noun - (genetics) the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division
- (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);
- copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
- the act of making copies; "Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient"
- the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves; "she could hear echoes of her own footsteps"
- the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion; "scientists will not believe an experimental result until they have seen at least one replication"
Requisition
- noun - an official form on which a request in made; "first you have to fill out the requisition"
- demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service
- make a formal request for official services
- seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized
- the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use
Respiration
- noun - a single complete act of breathing in and out; "thirty respirations per minute"
- the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
- the metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules; processes that take place in the cells and tissues during which energy is released and carbon dioxide is produced and absorbed by the blood to be transported to the lungs
Restinction
- - Act of quenching or extingishing.
Restitution
- noun - a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
- getting something back again; "upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing"
- the act of restoring something to its original state
Retribution
- noun - a justly deserved penalty
- the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
- the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution"
Rewrite Man
- noun - someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication