recap
See also: récap
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: rē-kăpʹ, IPA(key): /ɹiːˈkæp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -æp
Verb
recap (third-person singular simple present recaps, present participle recapping, simple past and past participle recapped)
- To seal (something) again with a cap.
- (Canada, US) To replace the worn tread on a tire by gluing a new outer portion.
- Synonym: retread
- 1957 Aug, “Recap your old tires?”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 11, number 8, page 13:
- Are recapped tires safe? This is obviously the thing to know before you consider buying recaps.
Translations
retread — see retread
Noun
recap (plural recaps)
- A tire that has had new tread glued on.
- 2008, John Adamson, Law for Business and Personal Use, →ISBN, page 102:
- As she did so, Stacy noted that the tire had been a recap—a tire created by gluing a new outer portion of tread onto the worn inner core of old tires.
Etymology 2
Clipping of recapitulation.
Pronunciation
- (noun) enPR: rēʹ-kăp, IPA(key): /ˈɹiːkæp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (verb) enPR: rē-kăpʹ, rēʹ-kăp, IPA(key): /ɹiːˈkæp/, /ˈɹiːkæp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -iːkæp, (verb) -æp
Noun
recap (plural recaps)
- A recapitulation.
- 2020 August 12, Paul Bigland, “High Speed 2 is starting to accelerate”, in Rail, page 56:
- With that in mind, here is an attempt to provide an overview of what's happening where, as well as a recap on some of the major announcements that have taken place in the past few months.
Synonyms
- (recapitulation): summarisation/summarization, summary, summing-up
Verb
recap (third-person singular simple present recaps, present participle recapping, simple past and past participle recapped)
- To recapitulate.
Etymology 3
Clipping of recapitalization.
Noun
recap (plural recaps)
- A leveraged recapitalization accomplished by increasing the debt to equity ratio.
- 2009, Thomas Kirchner, Merger Arbitrage: How to Profit from Event-Driven Arbitrage, →ISBN, page 196:
- A survey of private equity firms found that most firms are comfortable with a debt/equity ratio of 4:1 following a dividend recap.
Verb
recap (third-person singular simple present recaps, present participle recapping, simple past and past participle recapped)
- (informal) To replace capacitors in electronic equipment.
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