<B>realness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state or condition of being or appearing real. <BR> <I>Ex. There is such a realness to his narration that one is willing to overlook his many deficiencies in the art of expression (Science).</I> </DL>
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<B>real number,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any rational or irrational number. </DL>
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<B>Realpolitik, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (German.) political realism; practical politics. <BR> <I>Ex. Russian unideological Realpolitik, which means the Russians want to keep what they have but are not out to conquer the world (Canadian Forum).</I> </DL>
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<B>real presence</B> or <B>Real Presence,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the doctrine that Christ's body and blood are actually present in the sacrament of the Eucharist. </DL>
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<B>real property,</B> <B>=real estate.</B></DL>
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<B>Realschule, </B>noun, pl. <B>-len.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a German secondary school that emphasizes science and modern languages. </DL>
<B>real time,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> equivalence in time or speed between the output of an electronic computer and a particular physical process which needs this output for its effective operation. <BR> <I>Ex. That thinking had to be done in what engineers call "real time"--quick decisions, made on the basis of information that becomes available almost instantaneously through the vast electronic communications network (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>real-time, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> operating in real time; producing data or solving problems simultaneously with a process which depends on the data or solutions for its continuation or completion. </DL>
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<B>Realtor</B> or <B>realtor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Trademark.) a person engaged in the real-estate business who is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. </DL>
<B>real wages,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> wages measured in actual purchasing power. </DL>
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<B>ream</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>480 or 500 sheets of paper of the same size and quality. <DD><B> 2. </B>516 sheets of printing paper; perfect ream. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a very large quantity. <BR> <I>Ex. ream upon ream of nonsense.</I> </DL>
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<B>ream</B> (2), transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to enlarge or shape (a hole). <DD><B> 2. </B>to remove with a reamer. </DL>
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<B>ream</B> (3), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>cream. <DD><B> 2. </B>a froth or scum. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to froth or foam. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to skim. </DL>
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<B>reamer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tool for enlarging or shaping a hole. <DD><B> 2. </B>a utensil for squeezing the juice out of oranges, lemons, and the like. </DL>
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<B>reamputation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> amputation on a limb, a part of which has already been removed. </DL>
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<B>reanimate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-mated,</B> <B>-mating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to restore to life; give fresh spirit, vigor, or activity, to. <BR> <I>Ex. to reanimate discouraged troops, (Figurative.) to reanimate trade.</I> </DL>
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<B>reanimation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act or operation of reanimating. <BR> <I>Ex. Whatever method of heating was used, artificial respiration was essential for reanimation (New Scientist).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a reanimated state. </DL>
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<B>reannex, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to annex again, as territory that has been disjoined. <BR> <I>Ex. Saint Quentin, which ... had been a Flemish town, was to be reannexed (John L. Motley).</I> noun <B>reannexation.</B> </DL>
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<B>reanoint, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to anoint again. </DL>
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<B>reap, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to cut (grain). <BR> <I>Ex. Giant machines reap the wheat grown in the midwestern United States.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to gather (a crop). <BR> <I>Ex. It took many hands to reap a cotton crop before the invention of machinery.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to cut grain or gather a crop from. <BR> <I>Ex. The farmer reaps his fields.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) to get as a return or reward. <BR> <I>Ex. Kind acts often reap happy smiles.</I> (SYN) earn. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to reap a crop. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to get a return. (SYN) profit. </DL>
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<B>reapable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be reaped. </DL>
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<B>reaper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or machine that cuts grain or gathers a crop. </DL>
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<B>reaper and binder,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a machine that cuts and gathers grain, and ties the stalks into bundles. </DL>
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<B>reaphook, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tool with a curved blade used especially for reaping grain. </DL>
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<B>reaping machine, =reaper.</B></DL>
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<B>reapparel, </B>transitive verb, <B>-eled,</B> <B>-eling</B> or (especially British) <B>-elled,</B> <B>-elling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to clothe again. </DL>
<B>reappear, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to come into sight again. <BR> <I>Ex. See! the dull stars roll round and reappear (Alexander Pope).</I> </DL>
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<B>reappearance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or fact of reappearing. </DL>
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<B>reapplication, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the process of applying again. <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or condition of being reapplied. </DL>
<B>reappoint, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to appoint again. </DL>
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<B>reappointment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a renewed appointment. <BR> <I>Ex. Reappointment in April for another four-year term of [the] U.S. Surgeon General (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>reapportion, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to apportion again. <BR> <I>Ex. to reapportion property.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) to revise the apportionment of. <BR> <I>Ex. The 50 state legislatures have been reapportioned because the Court eventually came around to Justice Black's view that the Constitution required districts of equal population (Anthony Lewis).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (U.S.) to undergo reapportionment. <BR> <I>Ex. Legislatures often refuse to reapportion because they wish to protect the seats of some members from underpopulated areas (Robert G. Dixon, Jr.).</I> </DL>
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<B>reapportionment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a new distribution or arrangement. <BR> <I>Ex. the reapportionment of the shares of an inheritance.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a revising of the representation of an area within a deliberative body, especially by redrawing election districts. <BR> <I>Ex. Reapportionment is, strictly speaking, simply legislative redistricting, but in fact the process implies a reweighting of all the interests which contend for political influence (Roger H. Davidson).</I> </DL>
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<B>reappraisal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a new and fresh appraisal; reconsideration. <BR> <I>Ex. The situation calls for a reappraisal of all U.S. policies and contacts abroad, particularly in Latin America (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>reappraise, </B>transitive verb, <B>-praised,</B> <B>-praising.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to reconsider; make a fresh valuation of. <BR> <I>Ex. Samuel Eliot Morison's "Strategy and Compromise" reappraises all the major strategic problems and decisions which faced the Allies during the war (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
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<B>reapproach, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to approach again. </DL>
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<B>reappropriate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to appropriate again. </DL>
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<B>reappropriation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a new or different appropriation. </DL>
