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# re

preposition (formal: re, in letters and emails); prefix (re-); noun (re — the musical note, also spelt ray)

«re» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Re means «about» or «on the subject of», used at the top of letters and emails. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#m1)
2. The prefix re- means «again» or «back», as in redo, rewrite, return. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#m2)
3. Re is the second note of the musical scale do, re, mi. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday writing «Re:» starts an email subject («Re: school trip» means a reply about the trip). In word study re- helps you guess meanings: reread = read again, replay = play again. In music lessons it is a sung note. It is often a fragment of a longer word.

### Examples

- The email subject said «Re: football practice». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x1)
- Re your question, the trip is on Friday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x2)
- Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x3)
- Rewrite means write again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x4)
- If you reheat soup, you heat it again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x5)
- Please reread the instructions carefully. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x6)
- Replay the video to see the goal again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/#x7)

### Note

As a word on its own it is rare; mostly it is the prefix re-. «Re:» in an email reply comes from Latin, not from «reply», though people often think so. Pronounced REE (about) or RAY (music note). Some re- words do not mean «again» any more (report, record, reason).

## In Jewish tradition

In everyday writing «Re:» starts an email subject («Re: school trip» means a reply about the trip). In word study re- helps you guess meanings: reread = read again, replay = play again. In music lessons it is a sung note. It is often a fragment of a longer word.

### Examples

- iiifle, figuring the double letters re: -;.r and the "i or the )' as lourteen letters. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/re/#x1)
- As such a view is entirely re- pugnant to the modern critical raind, some writers regard this closing Mishnah as a later interpolation. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/re/#x2)

### Note

As a word on its own it is rare; mostly it is the prefix re-. «Re:» in an email reply comes from Latin, not from «reply», though people often think so. Pronounced REE (about) or RAY (music note). Some re- words do not mean «again» any more (report, record, reason).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «re» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/re/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«re» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/re.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «re» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/re/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«re» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/re.html) on Mova free.