re-, red-

1. Offensive and completely unacceptable.
2. Revolting; making someone feel physically repelled; such as, a repugnant odor.
3. Arousing disgust or aversion.
4. Offensive or repulsive; such as, morally repugnant behavior.
5. Etymology: from Latin repugnantem, repugnans and repugnare, "to fight back, to resist"; from re-, "back" + pugnare, "to fight".

1. To live in a place permanently or for an extended period.
2. To be inherently present; to exist: "There is a potential energy that resides in flowing water."
3. To be vested, as a power or right: "Our government recognizes the authority that resides in the Supreme Court."
4. Etymology: "To settle", from Old French resider, from Latin residere, "to remain behind, to rest", from re-, "back, again" plus sedere, "to sit".

1. The place; especially, the house, in which a person lives or resides; a dwelling place; a home.
2. A structure serving as a dwelling or home; especially, one of large proportion and superior quality: "They have a summer residence in Oregon.
3. The act or fact of residing.
4. The act of living or staying in a specified place while performing official duties, carrying on studies or research, waiting for a divorce, etc.
5. The time during which a person resides in a place: "She was a residence there for five years."
6. The location of the main offices or principal center of business activity of a commercial enterprise; especially, a large corporation; which as registered under law.

1. A person who resides or dwells in a place.
2. A physician who joins the medical staff of a hospital as a salaried employee for a specified period to gain advanced training; usually, in a particular field, being in full-time attendance at the hospital and often living on the premises.
3. A diplomatic representative, inferior in rank to an ambassador, residing at a foreign court.
4. Something which is encoded and permanently available to a computer user, as a font in a printer's ROM or software on a CD-ROM.
5. A computer program that is currently active or standing by in a computer memory.

1. The remainder of something after removal of parts or a part.
2. Matter remaining after completion of an abstractive chemical or physical process; such as, evaporation, combustion, distillation, or filtration; residuum.
3. In law: The remainder of a testator's estate after all claims, debts, and bequests are satisfied.
4. Etymology: from Old French residu, from Latin residuum, "a remainder", from residuus, "remaining, left over", from residere, "remain behind"; from re-, "back, again" + sedere, "to sit".

1. To spring back, especially to resume a former position or structure after being stretched or compressed.
2. To draw back; to recoil.
3. To draw back from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. Synonyms include: to bow out, to chicken out, to back down, to back off, to pull out.
4. To spring back; to spring away from an impact: "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide."
5. Formally to reject or to disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure: "He retracted his earlier statements about his religious beliefs."

1. The physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit.
2. Elasticity; the ability of matter to spring back quickly into shape after being bent, stretched, or deformed.
3. The ability of a person to recover, or to rebound, quickly from a setback.
4. Etymology: from Latin resiliens, resilire, "to rebound, to recoil"; from re- "back" + salire, "to jump, to leap".

1. Anyone who has the ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; personal buoyancy.
2. The power or ability of a material (metal, plastic, etc.) to return to an original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.

1. Able to recover quickly from setbacks; springing back; rebounding.
2. Being able to spring back quickly into shape after being bent, stretched, or squashed.
3. Marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune or disastrous situations: "The killers who struck this week are brutal and violent," President Bush said, "but terror will not have the final word because the people of India are resilient. They can withstand this trial."
4. Able to become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens: "Many people are hoping that the economy will be resilient and recover."
5. With computer technology, the ability to recover from a failure.

The term may be applied to hardware, software, or data.

6. Etymology: from about 1626, from Latin resiliens, resilire, "to rebound, to recoil"; from re-, "back" + salire, "to jump, to leap".