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re

re

1 9.9
The second note of a major scale used for singing
  • noun
  • /reɪ/
  • Specialized
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  • Their vision of our future is based on a bizarre (re)vision of history that should shock people.

Examples

  • The RE market in the Bay Area is no longer desirable for cash investors; they have moved on to greener pastures.

    Blog text (17)

  • Face it, the city is almost broke. New RE taxes are coming soon to raise revenue, the school system has been shrinking. What do you expect if not some private money to come in?

    Blog text (17)

  • I've never understood the appeal of the RE franchise, especially after 2.

    Blog text (23)

  • Gove, allowing a couple of state-funded schools to teach it as part of their curriculum as a scientific 'theory' but in RE, not science classes.

    Blog text (23)

  • # YOU TAKE THE DO, I'LL TAKE THE RE #

    All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

  • I've been on the record in saying that the process is too convoluted, that it requires too much money, and that it needs tracks for chaplaincy, RE, and possibly other forms of ministry.

    Blog text (26)

  • In music class, we learned that re is the second note of the major scale.

  • When singing the solfège scale, I started with do and moved to re.

  • The teacher explained that re follows do in the scale used for solfège.

Synonyms

ray
vsre
  • Specialized
3 8.9

A syllable for the second note in the do re mi scale

is the same syllable but uses the standard solfège spelling

Idioms

pro re nata
  • Formal
9.9

Given or done only when needed

Compounds

re-afforestation
  • UK
6.8

Planting new trees on land where a forest was cut down

re-creation
4.8

To make something again after people destroy or lose it

re-formation
  • UK
5.8

To make something again in a new or better way

re-establishment
4.9

Bringing something back to how it was before

re-introduction
  • UK
4.1

Bringing back something that was stopped, removed, or rejected

re-sentencing
  • UK
7.9

Giving a new, often lighter, punishment to someone after a judge already gave them one

re-release
  • UK
3.6

A new version of a film or album that people put out before

right of re-entry
  • Formal
9.9

An owner may take back property if someone breaks an agreement

Surface Forms

re singular
res plural

Etymology

Re comes from an old Latin song used to teach singing, where the second line began with the syllable re, taken from the Latin resonare meaning 'to resound'. So re is the name of the second note in the scale, and you can remember it as the note that 'resounds' after do.