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Reddening
- verb - make red; "The setting sun reddened the sky"
- turn red or redder; "The sky reddened"
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by"
Redeeming
- verb - bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"
- compensating for some fault or defect; "the redeeming feature of the plan is its simplicity"; "his saving grace was his sense of humor"
- convert into cash; of commercial papers
- exchange or buy back for money; under threat
- pay off (loans or promissory notes)
- restore the honor or worth of
- save from sins
- to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange
Redesigns
- verb - design anew, make a new design for
Redlining
- verb - discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood
- The term used for the maximum recommended engine speed on a motor vehicle and the indication of same on the rev counter
Reductant
- noun - a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
Redundant
- adjective - more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
- repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant
Reechoing
- verb - (of sounds) repeating by reflection; "a hotel with echoing halls"
- echo repeatedly, echo again and again
- repeat back like an echo
- repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back
Reef-Band
- - A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.
Reentrant
- adjective - (of angles) pointing inward; "a polygon with re-entrant angles"