different between rebate vs depreciate

English

Alternative forms

• rabate (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??i?be?t/, /???be?t/

Noun

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.
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.

Translations

Further reading

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

Verb

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.
4. (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
5. To abate; to withdraw.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Foxe to this entry?)

Translations

Anagrams

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

Portuguese

Verb

rebate

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of rebater
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of rebater

Romanian

Etymology

re- +? bate

Verb

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

1. to retype
2. to restrike

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology 1

Verb

rebate

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of rebatir.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of rebatir.

Etymology 2

Verb

rebate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of rebatar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of rebatar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of rebatar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin depretiare, depretiatus, from de- + pretium (“price”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??p?i???e?t/

Verb

depreciate (third-person singular simple present depreciates, present participle depreciating, simple past and past participle depreciated)

1. (transitive) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
   • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe

     […] which […] some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate.

   • 1 December, 1783, Edmund Burke, speech on Fox's East India Bill

     To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.

2. (intransitive) To decline in value over time.
3. (transitive) To belittle or disparage.

Usage notes

• Do not confuse with deprecate (“to disapprove of”). The meaning of deprecate has lately been encroaching on depreciate in the sense 'to belittle'.

Synonyms

• (reduce in value over time):
• (belittle): do down

Antonyms

• (reduce in value over time): appreciate
• (belittle): aggrandise/aggrandize, big up (slang)

Translations

Anagrams

• etacepride