# rebate
## English
### Alternative forms

* rabate (archaic)

### Etymology

From Old French rabatre < batre. See also abate.

### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈɹiːbeɪt/, /ɹəˈbeɪt/
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* Rhymes: -eɪt

### Noun

rebate (plural rebates)
* A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
* The return of part of an amount already paid.
* (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
* A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
    Coordinate terms: mortise, tenon
** 2014 September 11, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: The dangers of abestos roofs [print version: Where can I find help – at the double?, 6 September 2014, p. P13]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)‎:For your existing windows, the glazing rebates will also have to be deepened to provide the extra gap.
* A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
* An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
* A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.

#### Derived terms

* rebate plane

#### 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)
* (transitive) To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
* (transitive) To diminish or lessen something
* To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
** 1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XI:Then near the corslet, at the monarch’s heart, With all his strength, the youth directs his dart: But the broad belt, with plates of silver bound, The point rebated, and repell’d the wound.
* (transitive) To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
    Synonym: rabbet
* To abate; to withdraw.
** 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:he began a little to rebate from certain points of popery
* (intransitive, falconry) Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate$^2$.
** 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:The ſecunde is rebate youre hawke: to yowre fyſt, ⁊ thatt is whan yowre hawke batith, the leeſt meuyng that ye can make with yowre fyſt ſhe will rebate ayen vppon yowre fyſt[.]

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Bartee, beater, berate, betear, erbate, rebeat

## Portuguese
### Verb

rebate
* inflection of rebater:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

From re- +‎ bate.

### Verb

a rebate (third-person singular present rebat, past participle rebătut) 3rd conjugation
* to retype
* to restrike

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Verb

rebate
* inflection of rebatar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative
* inflection of rebatir:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative