RET meaning: Soak fibers to loosen lignin

We found 42 dictionaries that define the word RET:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

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ret: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
ret, ret: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
ret: Infoplease Dictionary
RET, ret: Dictionary.com
ret: Online Etymology Dictionary
RET (gene), RET, Ret: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Ret: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
ret: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Ret: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
RET, Ret, Ret, ret: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
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ret: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Art (1 matching dictionary)

ret-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

ret: Legal dictionary
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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
ret: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

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RET: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (8 matching dictionaries)

ret, ret, ret: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
ret: Genealogy Glossary
RET: Acronym Finder
ret: A Word A Day
RET: Three Letter Words with definitions
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
ret: Idioms
ret: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)

ret: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

ret: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
ret: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

RET: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (RET)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
▸ adjective:  retired
▸ noun:  (printing, historical) Short for reiteration. [The act of reiterating.]
▸ noun:  Initialism of road equivalent tariff.
▸ noun:  Initialism of rational emotive therapy.

Similar:

rot-steep, destem, strip, unrove, stem, retrim, ravel, repulp, reast, turpentine, more...

Opposite:

advance, proceed, progress

Types:

retort, rejoinder, counterargument, more...

Phrases:

water ret, RET proto-oncogene, RET inhibitor, more...

Adjectives:

international, late, sec, oblique, preferential, concave, pre, general, lateral, individual, inelegant