FromMiddle Englishrefreshen,refreschen,refrisschen, fromOld Frenchrefrescher(“to refresh”) (modernFrenchrafraîchir), equivalent tore- +fresh.
refresh (third-person singular simple presentrefreshes,present participlerefreshing,simple past and past participlerefreshed)
- (transitive) Torenew orrevitalize.
Sleeprefreshes the body and the mind.
1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Exodus31:16–17:Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and wasrefreshed.
- (intransitive) To become fresh again; to be revitalized.
- (computing, ambitransitive) Toreload (adocument, especially awebpage) and show any new changes.
2007, Beth Harbison,Shoe Addicts Anonymous:Sherefreshed the page. She was still the high bidder. Good.
- (computing, ambitransitive) To cause (aweb browser or similar software) to refresh its display.
2007, Philip C Plumlee,Test Driven Ajax (on Rails):You can save your code,refresh your browser, and see a change instantly. This simple trick turns a lowly web browser into a development environment[…]
- To perform theperiodicenergizing required to maintain the contents of computermemory, the displayluminance of a computer screen, etc.
- (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To takerefreshment; to eat or drink.
1972,Vermont History, volume40, page268:We got within two miles of there, and stopped in the woods out of sight, where werefreshed with some brandy, and gave the two boys very large portions.
to renew or revitalize
- Arabic:جَدَّدَ(jaddada)
- Aromanian:mpruspitedz
- Bulgarian:освежавам (bg)(osvežavam),ободрявам (bg)(obodrjavam)
- Catalan:refrescar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:提神 (zh)(tíshén)
- Czech:občerstvit,osvěžit
- Dutch:verfrissen (nl)
- Esperanto:refreŝigi,revigligi
- Finnish:virkistää (fi),piristää (fi),elvyttää (fi)
- French:revigorer (fr),rafraîchir (fr)
- Old French:refreschir
- Georgian:განახლება(ganaxleba)
- German:erfrischen (de),erquicken (de),auffrischen (de)
- Greek:ανανεώνω (el)(ananeóno)
- Ancient:ἀναψύχω(anapsúkhō)
- Hungarian:felüdít (hu),felfrissít (hu)
- Irish:beoigh
- Italian:rinfrescare (it)
- Japanese:爽やかにする (ja)(さわやかにする, sawayaka ni suru)
- Korean:새롭게 하다(saeropge hada)
- Luxembourgish:erfrëschen
- Maori:tāmata,whakanā
- Ngazidja Comorian:uɓuruɗisha
- Polish:odświeżyć (pl),odnawiać (pl) impf
- Portuguese:refrescar (pt)
- Romanian:împrospăta (ro)
- Russian:освежа́ть (ru) impf(osvežátʹ),обновля́ть (ru) impf(obnovljátʹ)
- Spanish:refrescar (es)
- Swedish:uppfriska
- Ukrainian:освіжа́ти impf(osvižáty),освіжи́ти pf(osvižýty)
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to become fresh again; to be revitalized
computing: to reload a document, web page etc.
computing: to cause to refresh a display
computing: to perform periodic energizing
Translations to be checked
refresh (pluralrefreshes)
- Theperiodicenergizing required to maintain the contents of computermemory, the displayluminance of a computer screen, etc.
- (computing) The update of a display (in aweb browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data.
- The process ofmodernizing something.
2013, Mark Phythian,Understanding the Intelligence Cycle, page43:Experiences such as the Al Qaeda threat have provided a taste of how the landscape may have changed very fundamentally. Do these changes spell the end of the Cycle as a useful concept, or does it just need arefresh?
