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Meaning of "reify" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD REIFY

From Latin rēs thing; compare deify.
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PRONUNCIATION OF REIFY

reify  [ˈriːɪˌfaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REIFY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Reify is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb reify in English.

WHAT DOES REIFY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Reification

Reification generally refers to making something real, bringing something into being, or making something concrete. Reification may also refer to: ▪ Reification, the perception of an object as having more spatial information than is actually present ▪ Reification, the consideration, in Marxism, of an abstraction or an object as if it had living existence and abilities ▪ Reification, the creation of a data model ▪ Reification, the fallacy of treating an abstraction as if it were a real thing ▪ Reification, the representation of facts and/or assertions ▪ Reification, the transformation, in natural-language processing, of a natural-language statement such that actions and events represented by it become quantifiable variables ▪ Reification, the use of an idealized model to make inferences linking results from an actual model with experimental observations...

Definition of reify in the English dictionary

The definition of reify in the dictionary is to consider or make real or concrete.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO REIFY

PRESENT

Present
I reify
you reify
he/she/it reifies
we reify
you reify
they reify
Present continuous
I am reifying
you are reifying
he/she/it is reifying
we are reifying
you are reifying
they are reifying
Present perfect
I have reified
you have reified
he/she/it has reified
we have reified
you have reified
they have reified
Present perfect continuous
I have been reifying
you have been reifying
he/she/it has been reifying
we have been reifying
you have been reifying
they have been reifying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I reified
you reified
he/she/it reified
we reified
you reified
they reified
Past continuous
I was reifying
you were reifying
he/she/it was reifying
we were reifying
you were reifying
they were reifying
Past perfect
I had reified
you had reified
he/she/it had reified
we had reified
you had reified
they had reified
Past perfect continuous
I had been reifying
you had been reifying
he/she/it had been reifying
we had been reifying
you had been reifying
they had been reifying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will reify
you will reify
he/she/it will reify
we will reify
you will reify
they will reify
Future continuous
I will be reifying
you will be reifying
he/she/it will be reifying
we will be reifying
you will be reifying
they will be reifying
Future perfect
I will have reified
you will have reified
he/she/it will have reified
we will have reified
you will have reified
they will have reified
Future perfect continuous
I will have been reifying
you will have been reifying
he/she/it will have been reifying
we will have been reifying
you will have been reifying
they will have been reifying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would reify
you would reify
he/she/it would reify
we would reify
you would reify
they would reify
Conditional continuous
I would be reifying
you would be reifying
he/she/it would be reifying
we would be reifying
you would be reifying
they would be reifying
Conditional perfect
I would have reify
you would have reify
he/she/it would have reify
we would have reify
you would have reify
they would have reify
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been reifying
you would have been reifying
he/she/it would have been reifying
we would have been reifying
you would have been reifying
they would have been reifying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you reify
we let´s reify
you reify
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to reify
Past participle
reified
Present Participle
reifying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REIFY


certify
ˈsɜːtɪˌfaɪ
clarify
ˈklærɪˌfaɪ
classify
ˈklæsɪˌfaɪ
deify
ˈdiːɪˌfaɪ
identifier
aɪˈdɛntɪˌfaɪ
identify
aɪˈdɛntɪˌfaɪ
justify
ˈdʒʌstɪˌfaɪ
modify
ˈmɒdɪˌfaɪ
notify
ˈnəʊtɪˌfaɪ
qualify
ˈkwɒlɪˌfaɪ
quantify
ˈkwɒntɪˌfaɪ
sci-fi
ˈsaɪˌfaɪ
semideify
ˌsɛmɪˈdiːɪˌfaɪ
signify
ˈsɪɡnɪˌfaɪ
simplify
ˈsɪmplɪˌfaɪ
specify
ˈspɛsɪˌfaɪ
testify
ˈtɛstɪˌfaɪ
undeify
ʌnˈdiːɪˌfaɪ
verify
ˈvɛrɪˌfaɪ
Wi-Fi
ˈwaɪˌfaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REIFY

reidentify
reif
reification
reificatory
reified
reifier
reifies
Reigate
reign
Reign of Terror
reigning
reignite
reignition
reiki
reillume
reillumine
reimage
reimagine
reimbursable
reimburse

WORDS THAT END LIKE REIFY

beautify
detoxify
disqualify
diversify
exemplify
fortify
glorify
indemnify
intensify
magnify
mattify
mollify
mortify
objectify
purify
ratify
rectify
solidify
stratify
unify

Synonyms and antonyms of reify in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «reify» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REIFY

Find out the translation of reify to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of reify from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «reify» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

具体化
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cosificar
570 millions of speakers

English

reify
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

reify
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

reify
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

овеществлять
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

reificar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাস্তবে পরিণত করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

réifier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menyegarkan semula
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verdinglichen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

具体化する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구체화
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Reif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cụ thể hóa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

reify
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुधारणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

somutlaştırmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

reificare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

reifikujemy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

уречевлює
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

concretiza
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

reify
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vers toffe lyk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

reifiera
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

reify
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REIFY»

Discover the use of reify in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to reify and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Implementing Reflective Metaprogramming for Rosetta Using ...
Defining reification from values to syntax is easy to do for most elements in the value space, and is implemented as a Reify class for modularity: class Reify val syn where reify :: val -> syn instance Reify (MetaValue m) MetaLang where reify ( N ...
Philip J. Weaver, 2007
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The Reasoned Schemer
Here is the definition of reify-s, whose first argument is assumed to have been walk*ed and whose second argument starts out as empty-s. The result of an invocation of reify-s is called a reified-name substitution. (define reify-s (lambda ( v s) (let ...
Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov, 2005
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Functional and Logic Programming: 5th International ...
module TypefulTdpeNf1 where import TypefulNf -- from Figure 7 data Reify_Reflect a = RR { reify reflect rra = RR { reify reflect rrf (t1, t2) = RR { reify reflect = = = = :: :: a -> Nf a, At a -> a } -- atomic types \x -> coerce x, \x -> uncoerce x } -- function ...
Herbert Kuchen, Kazunori Ueda, 2001
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Third-party Composition of AOP Mechanisms
weaveClass is a TEMPLATE METHOD [Gamma et al., 1995] that implements the weaving process (Listing 6.1) using reify, match, order, relate and mix. Listing 6.10 shows implementation of the reify process. The top-level reify method ...
Sergei Kojarski, 2008
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Applied Semantics: International Summer School, APPSEM 2000, ...
⊣CL E = norm E, that is, reify is a left inverse of [[−]]Gl. Proof. We use initial algebra semantics to structure our proof. A model of Gödel System T is a typed combinatory algebra extended with operations for interpreting ZERO, SUCC, and REC, ...
Gilles Barthe, 2002
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ECOOP '92. European Conference on Object-Oriented ...
The binding value of c is not captured by evaluating reify . Unlike other language definitions that permit the explicit capture of bindings or environments^, 6], the semantics of reify permits selective capture of bindings found in its environment.
Ole Lehrmann Madsen, 1992
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Programming Languages and Systems: 7th Asian Symposium, ...
In rule (Match), the operator reify n takes a quoted process or a quoted term and decomposes it into a tuple. (The name n is used for substituting a bound name or a bound variable, if there is any, in the reified process.) Formally, it is defined as:  ...
Zhenjiang Hu, 2009
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Clojure Programming
Defining anonymous types with reify Besides defrecord and deftype there is one other construct that accepts inline implementations: reify. Unlike deftype and defrecord, reify is not a top-level form; rather than defining a named type, it evaluates ...
Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, Christophe Grand, 2012
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Mathematics of Program Construction: 9th International ...
6), meaning that if we take a term t,evaluate and reify it, we arrive at a normal form v judgmentally equal to t (Cor. 2). The main tool is a Kripke logical relation between well-typed terms t and semantic objects d, which for base types states that d ...
Philippe Audebaud (ed), Christine Paulin-Mohring, 2008
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Computer Science Logic: 24th International Workshop, CSL ...
This lift may be "reversed" either by applying axiom (2) (for C) or by definition of the semantics (j). Formally, reify r is defined inductively in Table [4] Table 4. Reification of Strategies as Core Proofs reify 1 r (a) = PI reifytP(a) = P t (reify P ( Aj1 (a))) ...
Anuj Dawar, Helmut Veith, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REIFY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term reify is used in the context of the following news items.
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Turn Your Favorite Songs Into Colorful, Moving Landscapes With …
Arts-meets-tech platform REIFY, or “to make real,” is a project by Allison Wood and sound wunderkind Kei Gowda that transforms music into sculpture with 3D ... «GOOD Magazine, Jul 15»
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REIFY veut donner vie à la musique
On doit bien l'admettre c'est une idée bien originale qu'à eu la startup REIFY. Elle propose de pouvoir imprimer en 3D une représentation physique de n'importe ... «Ere Numérique, Jul 15»
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REIFY transforme votre musique en sculpture imprimée en 3D
Basée à Brooklyn, la startup REIFY a la volonté de changer la manière dont vous écoutez de la musique ! En s'appuyant sur l'impression 3D et la réalité ... «3dnatives, Jul 15»
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reify turns songs into 3D printed totems to audio visual stories
reify, driven by a core team of CEO allison wood and chief technologist kei gowda, is a physical platform for making totems encoded with music and visuals that ... «Designboom, Jul 15»
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Objet d'Art: Living Music
Wood, 26, studied interior design and digital interactive art at Pratt, and Reify is the result of her idea to "develop a new visual language for sound–one that takes ... «Interview, Jul 15»
6
Reify uses 3D printing and augmented reality to make music you …
The designers and engineers at NYC-based startup Reify have created a way to give people the opportunity to not only hear music, but also see and feel it at the ... «Digital Trends, Jul 15»
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What Songs Look Like as 3-D Printed Sculptures
That's the goal of Reify, a startup from New Inc's incubator that is Kickstarting its first project. Lead by Allison Wood and Kei Gowda, Reify turns sound waves into ... «Wired, Jul 15»
8
These tech innovations are works of art. Literally.
Reify can. The company uses a proprietary technology to record and then model sounds in three-dimensional space before using a collection of 3D printers to ... «Thanh Nien Daily, Jun 15»
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Lire son morceau de musique imprimé en 3D avec son smartphone
La nouveauté sort du studio REIFY en provenance Brooklyn, avec ce nouveau concept, il est désormais possible d'imprimer un morceau de musique en 3D et le ... «Imprimer en 3D, Jun 15»
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3D Printing: The Stories We Didn't Cover This Week — May 2, 2015
Reify's stereolithographic 3D printer, Solus DLP, is improved and can be pre-ordered, and a team from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has ... «3DPrint.com, May 15»

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