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RECREATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does recreate mean?
• RECREATE (verb)
The verb RECREATE has 4 senses:
2. engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
Familiarity information: RECREATE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: recreated
Past participle: recreated
-ing form: recreating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give new life or energy to
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
animate; quicken; reanimate; recreate; renovate; repair; revive; revivify; vivify
Context example:
This treatment repaired my health
Hypernyms (to "recreate" is one way to...):
arouse; brace; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)
Verb group:
come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derivation:
recreation (activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
play; recreate
Context example:
The students all recreate alike
Verb group:
play (be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
recreation (an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Give encouragement to
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
cheer; embolden; hearten; recreate
Hypernyms (to "recreate" is one way to...):
encourage (inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recreate"):
buck up; take heart (gain courage)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 4
Meaning:
Create anew
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting
Hypernyms (to "recreate" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recreate"):
reinvent (create anew and make over)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
In this study, speech scientists and neurologists from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recreated many vocal sounds with varying accuracy using brain signals recorded from epilepsy patients with normal speaking abilities.
(Scientists translate brain signals into speech sounds, National Institutes of Health)
Furthermore, the researchers were able to recreate similar nanostructures to those they discovered in the eggshells by using proteins, specifically by adding osteopontin to mineral crystals grown in the lab.
(Study paves way for healthier and more robust eggs, University of Granada)
Those samples are too valuable to experiment on directly, but having them means we can precisely recreate their consistency using terrestrial materials.
(Scientists Find Way to Extract Oxygen from Moon Dirt, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In the laboratory they recreated these chemical reactions under UV lamps, and generated the precursors to lipids, amino acids and nucleotides, all of which are essential components of living cells.
(Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth, University of Cambridge)
To understand how fixed nitrogen may have been deposited in the crater, researchers needed to recreate the early Martian atmosphere here on Earth.
(Asteroids, Hydrogen Make Great Recipe for Life on Mars, NASA)
The creative spirit in him flamed up at the thought and urged that he recreate this beauty for a wider audience than Ruth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The researchers recreated this genomic merger by crossing the two ancient peanuts species and analyzing the results in seven generations of offspring plants.
(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Aided by advanced stem cell technology and tissue chips, National Institutes of Health - funded researchers used stem cells originally derived from a person’s skin to recreate interactions between blood vessels and neurons that may occur early in the formation of the fetal human spinal cord.
(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)
Mrs. Jennings, knowing nothing of any change in the patient, went unusually early to bed; her maid, who was one of the principal nurses, was recreating herself in the housekeeper's room, and Elinor remained alone with Marianne.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In the current study, the researchers used a miniature model room placed inside a flume to recreate the movements of air inside a room when windows are opened in different temperature and wind conditions.
(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)
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