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Rebate vs Rebuttal - What's the difference?

rebate | rebuttal |

As a verb rebate

is .

As a noun rebuttal is

the act of refuting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.

rebate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.
  • The return of part of an amount already paid.
  • (photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
  • A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
  • * '>citation
  • A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
  • An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
  • A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
  • Verb

    (rebat)
  • To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
  • To diminish or lessen something
  • To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
  • * Shakespeare
  • But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
  • To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
  • To abate; to withdraw.
  • (Foxe)

    Anagrams

    * * * English transitive verbs ----

    rebuttal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of refuting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.
  • A statement, designed to refute or negate specific arguments put forward by opponents.
  • (legal) A pleading by a defendant in reply to the evidence put forward by a plaintiff or the prosecution.
  • Synonyms

    * refutation * confutation * contradiction