REINFORCE • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Reinforce

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/rˌiɪnfˈɔrs/ Listen

verb

Reenforce, re-enforce v. t.

To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reenforce an argument; to reenforce a garment; especially, To strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. (Written also reinforce)

(Psychology) To increase the likelihood that (a specific behavior) will be repeated by giving a reward or punishment to a person or animal; as, to reenforce the students' willingness to study by giving awards for good grades.

Reinforce v. t. See Reenforce, v. t.

noun

Reenforce n. Something which reenforces or strengthens. Specifically:

(a)

That part of a cannon near the breech which is thicker than the rest of the piece, so as better to resist the force of the exploding powder.

(b)

An additional thickness of canvas, cloth, or the like, around an eyelet, buttonhole, etc. (Written also reinforce)

Reinforce n. See Reenforce, n.

See images of 'Reinforce'

Etymology of 'Reinforce'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Reinforce" Quotes from Famous Books

... under Reduan de Vanegas, alcayde of Granada, to fall upon the convoy of ordnance, which stretched for a great distance through the mountain-defiles. Ferdinand had anticipated this attempt, and sent the commander of Leon with a body of horse and foot to reinforce the master of Alcantara. El Zagal from his mountain-height beheld the detachment issue from the camp, and immediately recalled Reduan. The armies now remained quiet for a time, the Moor looking grimly down upon the Christian camp, like a tiger meditating a bound upon his prey. The Christians ...

— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving

... sent to the Mediterranean, where, under the orders of Admiral Henry Osbourne, she continued upwards of two years, having been present, on the 28th of February, 1758, when M. du Quesne made his ineffectual attempt to reinforce M. De la Clue, who was then closely confined, with the fleet under his command, in the ...

— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge

... August the English governor at Fort Augustus, alarmed at the vague reports which reached him, and the sudden news that bodies of armed Highlanders were hurrying west, sent a detachment of two companies under Captain Scott to reinforce the ...

— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty

... guns and engineers by any amount of physical courage. Whenever the Catholics were fairly matched in the open field, they were generally successful, as at Julianstown, during this siege, where one of their detachments cut off five out of six companies marching from Dublin to reinforce the town; but though the investment was complete, the vigilant governor, Sir Henry Tichburne, successfully repulsed the assailants. O'Moore, who lay between Ardee and Dundalk with a reserve of 2,000 men, found time during the siege ...

— A Popular History of Ireland - From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics • Thomas D'Arcy McGee

... who surrounded him. Drunk with the blood lust of an unremembered past for the moment he was only a savage like them. And to the superstitious desert men he seemed possessed, and with sudden awe they had begun to draw away from him when a further party galloped up to reinforce them. Craven swung his horse to meet the new-comers and at the same moment realised that he had no cartridges left. With another reckless laugh he dashed his empty revolver in the face of the nearest Arab and, wheeling, ...

— The Shadow of the East • E. M. Hull

More quotes...