recidivate
— Verb
– English
~ go back to bad behavior; "Those who recidivate are often minor criminals"
recidivism
— Noun
– English
~ habitual relapse into crime
recidivist
— Noun
– English
~ someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
recidivist
— Noun
– English
~ someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
recife
— Noun
– English
~ a port city of northeastern Brazil on the Atlantic
recipe
— Noun
– English
~ directions for making something
recipient
— Noun
– English
~ a person who receives something
recipient
— Noun
– English
~ the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
reciprocal cross
— Noun
– English
~ hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype
reciprocal inhibition
— Noun
– English
~ a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety
reciprocal pronoun
— Noun
– English
~ a pronoun or pronominal phrase (as `each other') that expresses a mutual action or relationship between the individuals indicated in the plural subject; "The sentence `They cared for each other' contains a reciprocal pronoun"
reciprocal ohm
— Noun
– English
~ a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm
reciprocal
— Noun
– English
~ (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7
reciprocal
— Noun
– English
~ hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype
reciprocal
— Noun
– English
~ something (a term or expression or concept) that has an inverse relation to something else; "risk is the reciprocal of safety"
reciprocal
— Adjective
– English
~ concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; "reciprocal aid"; "reciprocal trade"; "mutual respect"; "reciprocal privileges at other clubs"
reciprocal
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function; "the reciprocal ratio of a:b is b:a"
reciprocality
— Noun
– English
~ a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
reciprocally
— Adverb
– English
~ in a mutual or shared manner; "the agreement was mutually satisfactory"; "the goals of the negotiators were not reciprocally exclusive"
reciprocally
— Adverb
– English
~ (often followed by `for') in exchange or in reciprocation; "gave up our seats on the plane and in return received several hundred dollars and seats on the next plane out"; "we get many benefits in return for our taxes"