different between reg vs rec

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?j, r?g, IPA^(key): /??d?/, /???/

Noun

reg (plural regs)

1. (Internet slang) A regular.

   I've been going to that chat room for months, and I know most of the regs by now.

2. (informal) A regulation.
3. registrar
4. registration
5. registry

Etymology 2

From regolith

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?g, IPA^(key): /???/

Noun

reg (countable and uncountable, plural regs)

1. (geography) A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert.
   • 1988, Robert Irwin, The Mysteries of Algiers, Dedalus 1993, page 66:

     As I say for half a mile round the fort it is rutted gravel. We call this sort of gravelly stuff reg.

Synonyms

• (hard surface of rock in sand): hammada, serir, yardang, desert pavement

See also

• erg
• koum
• zeugen

Anagrams

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GER, GRE, Ger, Ger., Ger??, erg, ger, gre

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch recht, from Middle Dutch recht, from Old Dutch reht, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz (adjective) and *reht? (noun), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?tós.

Adjective

reg (attributive regte, comparative regter, superlative regste)

1. right; correct
2. real; true; actual

Noun

reg (plural regte)

1. justice
2. right

Amanab

Noun

reg

1. child

Catalan

Noun

reg m (plural regs)

1. irrigation

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?k/

Verb

reg

1. singular imperative of regen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of regen

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??]
• Hyphenation: reg

Noun

reg

1. (obsolete) morning

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• reg in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r??e?/

Verb

·reg

1. first-person singular future conjunct of téit

Mutation

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin r?x, r?gem (“king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?/, [?e?]

Noun

reg (nominative plural regs)

1. (male or female) royal monarch, king / queen

Declension

Hyponyms

• hireg
• jireg

Derived terms

• ad reg peleüledölan (leül, leülön, leüled, leüledön)
• davälareg
• dobareg
• gerareg
• lampör-reg
• Norgänareg
• regakur
• regakvil
• regam
• regasomun, Osmunda regalis
• regatigrid, Panthera tigris tigris
• regavat
• regän
• regiäl
• regik
• regiko
• regikön
• regil
• regisasen
• reg läna
• reg Norgäna
• rego
• regön
• reg Svedäna
• regükön
• regül
• Svedänareg

Related terms

• davälahireg
• davälajireg
• dobahireg
• dobajireg
• gerahireg
• gerajireg
• hilampör-hireg
• hiregapijun (cf. en: king pigeon (or simply king), de: Kingtaube)
• hiregän
• hiregänik
• hiregik
• hiregiko
• hirego
• hireg cögädom (cög, cögön, cögädön, cögan)
• hireg Norgäna
• hireg Svedäna
• hiregül
• jilampör-jireg
• jiregän
• jiregänik
• jiregik
• jiregiko
• jireg Norgäna
• jirego
• jireg Svedäna
• jiregül
• Norgänahireg
• Norgänajireg
• regänik
• regän Sikilänas tel
• regiälan
• regiälik
• regiälim
• regiäliman
• regiälimik
• regisasenan
• Svedänahireg
• Svedänajireg
• tareg
• vireg

See also

• guv
• guvan
• guveral
• guverön
• hilampör
• hizar
• jilampör
• jizar
• lampör
• reig
• reigan
• reigän
• reigön
• zar

Welsh

Noun

reg

1. Soft mutation of rheg.

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rec (countable and uncountable, plural recs)

1. (informal) Abbreviation of recreation.

2. (countable, informal) A recreation ground.
3. (countable, informal) A recommendation or suggestion.
   • 2018, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy (page 48)

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

Alternative forms

• (recommendation): recc

Derived terms

• rec room

Verb

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.
2. (transitive, informal) To record.

Alternative forms

• (recommend): recc

Adjective

rec (not comparable)

1. (informal) Abbreviation of recreational.

Anagrams

• CER, CRE, ERC, Erc, RCE

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?rek/
• Homophone: reg

Noun

rec m (plural recs)

1. irrigation ditch

Derived terms

• reguer

Old English

Alternative forms

• r?ec

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?k/

Noun

r?c m

1. smoke

Descendants

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