Τι (ποιος) είναι Reclaim - ορισμός

reclaim

¦ verb

1. retrieve or recover.

2. bring (waste land or land formerly under water) under cultivation.

recycle.

3. dated redeem from a state of vice.

archaic tame or civilize (an animal or person).

¦ noun the action of reclaiming or being reclaimed.

Derivatives

reclaimable adjective

reclaimer noun

reclamation noun

Origin

ME: from OFr. reclamer, from L. reclamare 'cry out against', from re- 'back' + clamare 'to shout'.

Reclaim

·vi To draw back; to give way.

II. Reclaim ·vt To exclaim against; to Gainsay.

III. Reclaim ·vi To bring anyone back from evil courses; to Reform.

IV. Reclaim ·noun The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.

V. Reclaim ·vt To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.

VI. Reclaim ·vt To Correct; to Reform;

- said of things.

VII. Reclaim ·vt To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.

VIII. Reclaim ·vt To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.

IX. Reclaim ·vi To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to Contradict; to take exceptions.

X. Reclaim ·vt To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline;

- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals.

XI. Reclaim ·vt To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to Reform.

XII. Reclaim ·vt Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, ·etc.

reclaim

v. a.

Reform, amend.

Regain, recover, restore, reinstate.

Correct, reduce to order, amend.

Tame, make gentle.