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For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.
Shea Hembrey

Meaning of "rarefy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RAREFY

From Old French raréfier, from Latin rārēfacere, from rārusrare1 + facere to make.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RAREFY

rarefy  [ˈrɛərɪˌfaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RAREFY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rarefy 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 rarefy in English.

WHAT DOES RAREFY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rarefaction

Rarefaction is the reduction of an item's density, the opposite of compression. Like compression, which can travel in waves, rarefaction waves also exist in nature. A common rarefaction wave is the area of low relative pressure following a shock wave. Rarefaction waves expand with time; in most gases rarefaction waves keep the same overall profile at all times throughout the wave's movement: it is a self-similar expansion. Each part of the wave travels at the local speed of sound, in the local medium. This expansion behaviour is in contrast to the behaviour of pressure increases, which get narrower with time, until they steepen into shock waves.

Definition of rarefy in the English dictionary

The definition of rarefy in the dictionary is to make or become rarer or less dense; thin out.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RAREFY

PRESENT

Present
I rarefy
you rarefy
he/she/it rarefies
we rarefy
you rarefy
they rarefy
Present continuous
I am rarefying
you are rarefying
he/she/it is rarefying
we are rarefying
you are rarefying
they are rarefying
Present perfect
I have rarefied
you have rarefied
he/she/it has rarefied
we have rarefied
you have rarefied
they have rarefied
Present perfect continuous
I have been rarefying
you have been rarefying
he/she/it has been rarefying
we have been rarefying
you have been rarefying
they have been rarefying
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 rarefied
you rarefied
he/she/it rarefied
we rarefied
you rarefied
they rarefied
Past continuous
I was rarefying
you were rarefying
he/she/it was rarefying
we were rarefying
you were rarefying
they were rarefying
Past perfect
I had rarefied
you had rarefied
he/she/it had rarefied
we had rarefied
you had rarefied
they had rarefied
Past perfect continuous
I had been rarefying
you had been rarefying
he/she/it had been rarefying
we had been rarefying
you had been rarefying
they had been rarefying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

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

CONDITIONAL

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you rarefy
we let´s rarefy
you rarefy
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to rarefy
Past participle
rarefied
Present Participle
rarefying
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 RAREFY


aerify
ˈɛərɪˌfaɪ
clarify
ˈklærɪˌfaɪ
copurify
kəʊˈpjʊərɪˌfaɪ
corporify
ˈkɔːpərɪˌfaɪ
electrify
ɪˈlɛktrɪˌfaɪ
etherify
ˈiːθərɪˌfaɪ
glorify
ˈɡlɔːrɪˌfaɪ
horrify
ˈhɒrɪˌfaɪ
nigrify
ˈnɪɡrɪˌfaɪ
petrify
ˈpɛtrɪˌfaɪ
purify
ˈpjʊərɪˌfaɪ
putrefy
ˈpjuːtrɪˌfaɪ
repurify
riːˈpjʊərɪˌfaɪ
scarify
ˈskɛərɪˌfaɪ
scorify
ˈskɔːrɪˌfaɪ
terrify
ˈtɛrɪˌfaɪ
thurify
ˈθjʊərɪˌfaɪ
transmogrify
trænzˈmɒɡrɪˌfaɪ
verify
ˈvɛrɪˌfaɪ
vitrify
ˈvɪtrɪˌfaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RAREFY

rare
rare bird
rare earth
rare gas
rare-earth element
rarebit
raree show
rarefaction
rarefactional
rarefactive
rarefiable
rarefication
rareficational
rarefied
rarefier
rarefies
rarely
rareness
rareripe
raring

WORDS THAT END LIKE RAREFY

arefy
beefy
calefy
casefy
defy
liquefy
madefy
pinguefy
redefy
reefy
reliquefy
rubefy
stupefy
tabefy
tepefy
torpefy
torrefy
tumefy

Synonyms and antonyms of rarefy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RAREFY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rarefy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rarefy

Translation of «rarefy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RAREFY

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

Translator English - Chinese

抽稀
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rarefy
570 millions of speakers

English

rarefy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

rarefy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

rarefy
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разжижается
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rarefy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিরল করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

raréfier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rarefy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verdünnen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

rarefy
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

rarefy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rarefy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm loang đi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தூய்மைப்படுத்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुर्मिळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

seyrelmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rarefare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rarefy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розріджується
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rarefia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

rarefy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ijler
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rarefy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rarefy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rarefy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RAREFY»

The term «rarefy» is normally little used and occupies the 139.782 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RAREFY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rarefy

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QUOTES WITH «RAREFY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rarefy.
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Shea Hembrey
For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAREFY»

Discover the use of rarefy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rarefy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English ...
To rarefy, to become thin and extended. Rarefaciente, a. Rarefying. Rarefactivo, va, a. Rarefactive. Rarefacto, ta, pp. irr. of Jiarefacer and Rare facerte. Rareza, tf. 1. Rarity, rareness, uncommonness, infrequency. 2. Rarity, a thing valued for its ...
Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, 1837
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Philosophical principles of medecine
Fit will be thereby protracted and strengthned; which in highly inflammatory and rarefactive Fevers especially, is very dangerous : the Reason of which is, that while the Stomach is extremely heated, and the Air contain'd in it forcibly rarefy'd,  ...
Thomas Morgan, 1730
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
In Xfyt the valve O cannot be raised without prevalence of the elasticity of the air in i above the weight of the atmosphere, united, make it difficult to rarefy than 100 times, and very few such syr rarefy it more than 50 times ; whereas I with cocks, ...
‎1816
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Memoirs
If the common pump will, in experiment, rarefy the air only one hundred times, when in its best state, and Mr. Smeatoris, by construction, in duplicate proportion to this, it ought to go to ten thousand ; every thing being supposed perfect : but in its ...
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1785
5
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge
See Repulsion. _ * RAREF1ABLE. adj. [from rarefy.] Admitting rarefaction. — (1.) * To RAREFY, -tr. a. [rarefier, Fr. ranu and facio, Lat. rarify were more proper.] To make thin : contrary to condense. — To the hot equator crouding fast, Where ...
Encyclopaedia Perthensis, 1806
6
Mi Lengua: Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United ...
I edit for spelling after I'm finished writing. a Never a Rarefy a Occasionally a Often W22. I try to put the accents on while I'm writing.6 a Never a Rarely n Occasionally n Often W23. I go back and put the accents on after I'm finished writing. a ...
Ana Roca, María Cecilia Colombi, 2003
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A System of Mechanical Philosophy
This will rarefy the air of the receiver ten times. Repeating the operation will rarefy it 100 times ; the third operation will rarefy it 1000 times; the fourth, 10,000 times, &c. All this may be done in half a minute. Patebt in 1785. " For certain newly ...
John Robison, Sir David Brewster, James Watt, 1822
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Surveying Natural Populations: Quantitative Tools for ...
A colleague has stated that the bats have about the same species richness as the trees because at n = 579 there are S = 38 species. Comment. 12.2 Using the equation from Problem 12.1, rarefy to predict S for n = 206, 344, 579, ...
Lee-Ann C. Hayek, Martin A. Buzas, 2010
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Lexicon Physico-medicum: Or, a New Medicinal Dictionary, ...
Therefore, according to the Laws of Staticks, the Air, which kiefs rarefy 'd or expended by Heat, and consequently more ponderous, must have a Motion round those Parts thereof, vhich are more rarefy'd, and less ponderous, to bring it to an ...
John Quincy, 1730
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The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette
A(Qn_l)Qn nn 20n-l = V,205^1 .•. After the first time of rarefaction, keep it rarefied to this extent, and to we shall by this method only use empty (A), we shall require as before AQn.(Qn-l) 0n _ 1 P 2 0n-l Ap.-jjJ-" to rarefy the air to the extent £ ; and  ...
‎1846

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RAREFY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rarefy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Soldiers in combat: Evidence of brain deterioration similar to …
So in the context of blast-associated TBI, there may be pressure waves that will compress and rarefy the brain tissue (analogous to the P-waves), causing ... «Genetic Literacy Project, Jun 15»
2
Samsung will be bringing up a Brand new smartwatch this year with …
Samsung will undoubtedly be watching the progress of the Apple Watch closely over the upcoming months as it looks forward to rarefy and hone its new designs ... «Nagpur Today, Jun 15»
3
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If a noun ends in “-ency,” it normally takes “ence.” 16. Use “-ify” in all cases but four: liquefy, putrefy, stupefy, and rarefy. Those are the only words in English that ... «Business Insider Australia, May 15»
4
Rubenstein Family Organ Recital Series ends second season with …
In these concise works, completed in 2010, Escaich was able to rarefy the feral fecundity heard in the improvisations, trimming the excess fat and boiling it down ... «Washington Post, May 15»
5
More Intense Summer Heat Waves Caused by the Faster Melting …
... a study, published March 12, the Arctic warming obviously interrupts the air stream that substantially rarefy summer storms. The effect causes more hot fronts. «Geek Infinite, Mar 15»
6
Evangelicalism's Worldwide Explosion May Strengthen Progressivism
Like a neoplatonist ascending the chain of being from material distinctiveness to “the One,” evangelicalism ever seeks to rarefy its essence from the particulars. «The Federalist, Jan 15»
7
Art meets mercury at FGCU
"Sometimes scientists deal with too much information; the artist is the editor. "Artists rarefy it into visual poetics. You can write a poem or a novel: These guys are ... «The News-Press, Jan 15»
8
Oppo HA-1 Review: A Fantastic Headphone Amp
They move to compress (and rarefy) air, so you can hear sound. That movement requires energy, and that's where the headphone amp comes in. An amp with a ... «Forbes, Aug 14»
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The Road Ahead: Exclusive Preview of “Trinity of Sin: Pandora #13”
But you'd risk those essential truths you're hoping to rarefy, being contextualized to a point where their own essence might be radically diminished, perhaps ... «PopMatters, Jul 14»
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In the Galleries: A Washington Color School reunion
The two examples of Mary Frank's “Equestrian and Standing Nude” series, from 1982, seem photo-based, yet rarefy their juxtaposed images into silhouettes and ... «Washington Post, Jul 14»

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