Reis
[reʃ]
Definition
(pl. ) of Rei
(n.) The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money of account, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.
(n.) A common title in the East for a person in authority, especially the captain of a ship.
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Definition
n. a Portuguese money of which 1000 make a milreis—4s. 5d.
Editor: Spence
Examples
- If Reis’ telephone had been a speaking telephone, this would have been unnecessary. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- That Reis’ transmitter did alternately make and break the circuit, seems clear from his own memoir. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Twenty-five cigars, at 100 reis, 2,500 reis! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Eleven bottles of wine, at 1,200 reis, 13,200 reis! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Reis evidently did not know how to make the vibrations of his diaphragm translate themselves into exactly commensurate and correlated electric impulses of equal rapidity, range, and quality. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Page's Production of Galvanic Music and Researches of Reis. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Then young Philip Reis of Frankfort, Germany, attempted to put all these theories into an apparatus to reproduce speech, but did not quite succeed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Portuguese pennies, or reis (pronounced rays), are prodigious. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- TOTAL, TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED REIS! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In both cases the current was a continuously closed one, and was not alternately made and broken as by the separating contacts of Reis. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- About 1860, Reis built several forms of electrical telephonic apparatus, all imitating in some degree the human ear, with its auditory tube, tympanum, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In 1854 Bourseul, of Paris _suggested_ an electric telephone, and in 1861 Philip Reis _devised_ an electric telephone which would transmit musical tones. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Reis’ plan resembled the broken drum beats, and Bell’s the kite cord, which always preserved a certain amount of tension. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Indeed, even the platinum point, which in the early form of the Reis transmitter pressed against the platinum contact cemented to the centre of the diaphragm, was a microphone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They count it in reis at a thousand to the dollar, and this makes them rich and contented. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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