English

the rebates of this cinema film include both the clear portions, with sprocket holes, and the all-black portion of the both edges

Noun

rebate ‎(plural rebates)

A rebate (rabbet) for joining wood

1. A deduction from an amount to be 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.
   • 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.

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

External links

• rebate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rebate in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
• 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.
   • Shakespeare

     But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.

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

• beater
• berate
• betear

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.