ret

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ɹɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

From Middle English retten, reten; perhaps from Middle Dutch rēten, reeten (compare Middle Low German rōten; Middle High German rōzen), or from Old Norse reyta (compare Norwegian røyta, Swedish röta); all from Proto-Germanic *rautijaną (“to make mellow or soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewd- (“to tear; rend; rip”). Related to rot.

ret (third-person singular simple present rets, present participle retting, simple past and past participle retted)

1. (transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
   • 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XLVIII:

     the hemp was retted / and soon the retting was done / and swiftly it was hung up / and hurriedly it was dried […].

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 621:

     the lowland nearly silent except for water-thrushes, the harvested fields, the smell of hops being dried in kilns, flax pulled up and piled in sheaves, in local practice not to be retted till the spring

• retter

Abbreviation.

ret

1. retired

• ERT, ert, ter, ter-

• IPA^(key): /rʌt/
• (Banda Aceh) IPA^(key): [rɛt]

ret

1. road

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

ret

1. third-person singular present indicative form of retre
2. second-person singular imperative form of retre

From Proto-Slavic *rъtъ. Compare Russian рот (rot, “mouth”).

• IPA^(key): /rɛt/

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ret m inan

1. lip

• rtěnka f

• ret in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• ret in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /rɛt/, [ˈʁɑd̥]
• Homophone: rat

From Old Norse réttr, from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵtós.

ret

1. straight

   en ret linje

   a straight line

2. right, proper
3. rightful

   den rette arving

   the rightful heir

4. plain (in knitting)

• (rightful): retmæssig

• (rightful): uretmæssig
• (in knitting): vrang

ret

1. straight
2. rightly, properly
3. rather, quite

   Han er ret høj.

   He is rather tall.

Maybe from Middle Low German richte.

ret c (singular definite retten, plural indefinite retter)

1. (uncountable) right, justice, law
2. court, courtroom, lawcourt
3. dish, course (of food)
4. (uncountable) right side (e.g. of a fabric)

From English red.

ret

1. red

Derived from riit.

ret

1. (hunting) A flag or stake that is used as a signal in the seal ice or as you put on the boat to find it again among the icebergs when departing from it to hunt.

ret

1. singular active preterite indicative of riit