rez
/ɹɛz/
rez is the clipping of reservation or reserve.
rez is the clipping of residence.
rez is the clipping of resonance.
rez is the clipping of resurrection.
rez is the clipping of resolution.
rez is the clipping of resurrect.
Meaning of residence
Noun
residence (countable and uncountable, plural residences)
- The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
- Johnson took up his residence in London.1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...
- A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
- The place where a corporation is established.
- The state of living in a particular place or environment.
- The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.1713, The History of the Common Law of England, Sir Matthew Hale (jurist), Google Books, page 87
- Accommodation for students at a university or college.
- The place where anything rests permanently.
- But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then […] fights against his own majesty and kingship.1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC
Meaning of resonance
Noun
resonance (countable and uncountable, plural resonances)
- The quality of being resonant.
- The leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick rope; these were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks handled them, and by their resonance as they were roughly moved.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- resound
- A resonant sound, echo, or reverberation, such as that produced by blowing over the top of a bottle.
- He passed on, and the lights and cries of the station dropped away, merged in a wider haze and a hollower resonance, as the train gathered itself up with a long shake and rolled out again into the darkness.1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company
- The sound produced by a hollow body part such as the chest cavity upon auscultation, especially that produced while the patient is speaking.
- Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion; something that strikes a chord.
- emotional resonance
- The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.
- One of the most important developments beyond the original concept of magnetic resonance is so-called double resonance in which, as the name suggests, one excites one resonant transition of a system while simultaneously monitoring a different transition.2013, Charles P. Slichter, Principles of Magnetic Resonance, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 217
- A short-lived subatomic particle or state of atomic excitation that results from the collision of atomic particles.
- When experiments with the first ‘atom-smashers’ took place in the 1950s to 1960s, many short-lived heavier siblings of the proton and neutron, known as ‘resonances’, were discovered.2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 35
Verb
rez (third-person singular simple present rezs or rezzes, present participle rezing or rezzing, simple past and past participle rezed or rezzed)
- To spawn or load into the game.
- Don't rez some enormous prop: it'll lag the server!
Forms of rez
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rezes |
| plural | rezzes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | rezs |
| third-person singular present | rezzes |
| present participle | rezing |
| present participle | rezzing |
| past participle | rezed |
| past | rezed |
| past participle | rezzed |
| past | rezzed |
Words formed from rez
Phrases with rez
Questions about rez
- What does rez mean?
- Rez means to spawn or load into the game.
- What is rez the clipping of?
- Rez is the clipping of reservation or reserve.
- What part of speech is rez?
- Rez is a verb.
- How do you pronounce rez?
- Rez is pronounced /ɹɛz/.
- What is the past tense of rez?
- The past tense of rez is rezed.
Words near rez in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rez (page history and authors); residence (page history and authors); resonance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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