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Look up: reclaim

  1. reclaim
    [v] - claim back 2. [v] - of materials from waste products 3. [v] - make useful again
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Reclaim
    Re·claim' (rē*klām') transitive verb To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of. « A tract of land [ Holland] snatched from an element perpetually reclaiming its prior occupancy.» W. Coxe.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/24

  3. Reclaim
    Re·claim' (re*klām') transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Reclaimed (-klāmd'); present participle & verbal noun Reclaiming .] [ French réclamer , Latin reclamare , reclamatum , to cry out against; prefix re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See Claim .] 1. ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/24

  4. Reclaim
    Re·claim' (re*klām') intransitive verb 1. To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. « Scripture reclaims , and the whole Catholic church reclaims , and Christian ears would not hear it.» Waterland. « At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/24

  5. Reclaim
    Re·claim' noun The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. [ Obsolete]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/24

  6. reclaim
    1. To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call. ... 2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. 'The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . Along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.' (Dryden) ... 3. To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. Reclaim
    The word `Reclaim` or `Reclaiming` can refer to : * Reclaiming words by promoting them with positive connotations * Land reclamation * Water reclamation * REgional CLean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), an emissions trading program in California *To reclaim, rather than recycle, is use discarded material for its original intended purpose, eg reclaimed bricks are those saved from demolition, cleaned up and set aside or sold for reuse. Recycled b...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaim

  8. Reclaim
    • (v. t.) To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting. • (v. i.) To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions. • (n.) The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery. • (v. i.) To brin...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. reclaim
    reclaim 1. The act of recalling, or state of being recalled, to a proper conduct. 2. The reclamation of land. 3. To bring (waste land, or land formerly covered by water) under, or into a fit state for, cultivation. 4. To recover (rubber) for reuse by freeing it from impurities and rendering it plastic again; more widely, to make (re)usable (what has been u...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf


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