reclaim
To return land to a suitable condition for useTo return land to a suitable condition for use.
» This airport was built on reclaimed land.
Значение
значений: 10(переходный)To return land to a suitable condition for use.
(переходный)To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
reuse (materials from waste products)
(переходный)To claim something back; to repossess.
claim back
(устаревшее, переходный)To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
(Шотландия, непереходный)To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.
(архаичное, переходный)To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
(архаичное, переходный)To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
(архаичное, переходный)To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
(устаревшее, редкое)To draw back; to give way.
Примеры
предложений: 29This airport was built on reclaimed land.
This table is made from reclaimed wood.
deDieser Tisch besteht aus wiederverwertetem Holz. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Nature has begun to reclaim these spaces.
This city was built on reclaimed land.
This building was built on reclaimed land.
Переводы
языков: 5Происхождение
From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaFrom Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.
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Формы
reclaims, reclaiming, reclaimed, reclaimedСинонимы
синонимов: 9- reuse (materials from waste products):recover-v
- claim back:repossess
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one:reformregeneraterectify
- overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable:domesticatedomesticizedomesticisetame
Однокоренные
связанных слов: 8Уроки к слову
уроков: 3- A1Present Simple: настоящее простое время — Потому что это глагол
- A1Past Simple: правильные глаголы — Потому что у него есть форма прошедшего времени
- A2Present Perfect: введение — Потому что у него есть причастие прошедшего времени