单词 | recomplete |
释义 | recompletev. 1. transitive. To complete again. ΚΠ 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iii. 55 I had no sooner put them in their places, but the Head and the Arms came of their own accords, to recompleat the whole [Fr. la teste & les bras vindrent incontinent se mettre en leur place, voulans auoir part au plaisir, comme les autres membres]. 1753 B. Kennicott State Printed Hebrew Text Old Test. 220 For this Hero, succeeding one of the Original Thirty Seven.., is added here at the End to recompleat the establish'd Number. 1800 Treaty concluded at Pfora in Coll. State Papers War against France (1801) X. p. iii His Britannic Majesty pays..for every recruit, to recomplete the corps, deserters excepted. 1867 Proc. Royal Soc. 15 370 Each time the circuit is broken and recompleted the same effect recurs. 1936 Mod. Lang. Jrnl. 21 127 Generally speaking, our French classes have sedulously avoided even the appearance of thought before they have completed and recompleted what we call ‘the elements’ of the language. 1976 Admin. Sci. Q. 21 93 The same subjects are asked to recomplete the self-assessment instrument after the one-week Grid Seminar. 2001 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 28 Sept. 51 A Melbourne law graduate will have to recomplete his year of legal training as his mentor was found to be ineligible. 2. transitive. Oil Industry. To modify (an existing oil or gas well) to gain access to another productive formation or pay zone. ΚΠ 1923 Los Angeles Times 22 Nov. i. 17/1 A third well is being drilled... It was spudded in recently with a portable rig, but since No. 2 was recompleted the management has decided to put in a standard rig. 1952 Times 15 July 9/2 One well which was drilled in 1947 as a gas well has now been recompleted as a dual gas producer. 1998 Tulsa World 9 Sept. 173 The partners plan to drill 36 development wells, recomplete 30 wells and conduct 24 fracture stimulations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1655 |
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