rec

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛk/
• Homophones: recc, reck, wreck

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

rec (countable and uncountable, plural recs)

1. (uncountable, informal) Clipping of recreation.

   At 11 o'clock, school's out, and it's time for rec.

2. (countable, informal) Clipping of recreation ground.

   Synonym: reccy

3. (countable, informal) Clipping of recommendation.

   Synonym: recc

   • 2018, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, page 48:

     “Got any recs?”
     “What are you looking for?”
     “Something angry,” I said.

• rec hall
• rec league
• rec room

rec (third-person singular simple present recs, present participle reccing or recing or rec'ing, simple past and past participle recced or reced or rec'ed or rec'd)

1. (transitive, informal) To recommend.

   Synonym: recc

2. (transitive, informal) To record.

rec (not comparable)

1. (informal) Clipping of recreational.

• CER, CRE, ERC, Erc, RCE

From Proto-Celtic *ɸrik- (“furrow”). Compare Occitan rèc (whence French arrèc) and Basque erreka.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈrek]
• Homophone: reg

rec m (plural recs)

1. irrigation ditch

• reguer

• rega
• regar

• “rec” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• rīec

From Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, whence also Old Frisian rēk, Old Saxon rōk, Old Dutch rouc, Old High German rouh, Old Norse reykr. Possibly a loan from the Old Norse instead.

• IPA^(key): /reːk/

rēc m

1. smoke

• Middle English: rek
  • English: reek
  • Scots: reek, reik

Borrowed from German Reck.

rec n (plural recuri)

1. (gymnastics) horizontal bar