rebate

 

• rabate (archaic)

From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːbeɪt/, /ɹəˈbeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

rebate (plural rebates)

 

1. A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
2. The return of part of an amount already paid.
3. (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
4. A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.

   Coordinate terms: mortise, tenon

   • 2014 September 11, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: The dangers of abestos roofs [print version: Where can I find help – at the double?, 6 September 2014, p. P13]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)‎^[1]:

     For your existing windows, the glazing rebates will also have to be deepened to provide the extra gap.

5. A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
6. An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
7. A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

• rebate plane

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•   Rebate in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• PhotoNotes.org Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography

rebate (third-person singular simple present rebates, present participle rebating, simple past and past participle rebated)

1. (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
2. (transitive) To diminish or lessen something
3. To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

     But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.

   • 1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XI:

     Then near the corslet, at the monarch’s heart,
     With all his strength, the youth directs his dart:
     But the broad belt, with plates of silver bound,
     The point rebated, and repell’d the wound.

4. (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something

   Synonym: rabbet

5. To abate; to withdraw.
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:

     he began a little to rebate from certain points of popery

6. (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².
   • 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:

     The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]

• Bartee, beater, berate, betear, erbate, rebeat

rebate

1. inflection of rebater:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From re- +‎ bate.

a rebate (third-person singular present rebat, past participle rebătut) 3rd conj.

1. to retype
2. to restrike

rebate

1. inflection of rebatar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of rebatir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative