Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To undergo regelation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To freeze or become congealed again; specifically, to freeze together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Physics) To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To undergo
regelation .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Why must be one be regelate differently depending on where you are at?
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The county wants to regelate every ascept of everything without taken a step back and saying "this is dumb what are we doing?"
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"He's a gwineter regelate de wedder," replied Uncle Remus, sententiously.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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"He's a gwineter regelate de wedder," replied Uncle Remus, sententiously.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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If the Republicans continue to take their lead from Fox News, and the Tea Party movement that Fox News created, they will regelate themselves to obscurity as a valid political party.
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To regelate commerce with foreign. nations, and rmong
A pocket almanack, for the year ... : calculated for the use of the state of Massachusetts-Bay 1779
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The adherence of the ice to the bed of the stream or other objects is always downstream from the place where they are formed; in large streams it is frequently many miles below; a large part of them do not become fixed, but as they come in contact with each other, regelate and form spongy masses, often of considerable size, which drift along with the current, and are often troublesome impediments to the use of water power.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various
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