reformer
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)
Noun edit
reformer (plural reformers)
- One who reforms, or who works for reform.
- (historical, Christianity) One who was involved in the Reformation.
- 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London: [s.n.], 1870], →OCLC, page 127:
- […] for I long to ſee a larke without a creaſt, and would travaile farre to diſcoover a reformer without a fault, […]
- (chemical engineering, fuel cells) A device which converts hydrocarbons into a hydrogen-rich mixture of gases.
- 2004, Evelyn Brown, “Argonne tests and creates the fuel cells to power the future”, in Evelyn Brown, editor, Logos[1], volume 22, number 1, page 15:
- The fuel reformer works somewhat like catalytic converters in cars. In the gasoline reformer, vaporized gasoline is mixed with steam and air before traveling through a cylinder packed with the new Argonne catalyst. The result is a hydrogen-rich gas that is further processed in subsequent chemical steps and is then fed to the fuel cell.
- (petrochemistry) A device used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas, typically having low octane ratings, into high-octane liquid products called reformates.
- 1979 December, Alaska Petrochemical Company, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Draft[:] Environmental Impact Statement[2], page 29:
- Deisohexanizer bottoms are routed to the continuous reformer, where the octane of the stream is upgraded chiefly by conversion of naphthenes and paraffins to high octane aromatic compounds.
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "one who reforms"): traditionalist
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
one who reforms, or who works for reform
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one who was involved in the Reformation
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Verb edit
reformer
- to reform, to get/put back together
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of reformer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | reformer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | reformant /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | reformé /ʁə.fɔʁ.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | reforme /ʁə.fɔʁm/ |
reformes /ʁə.fɔʁm/ |
reforme /ʁə.fɔʁm/ |
reformons /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɔ̃/ |
reformez /ʁə.fɔʁ.me/ |
reforment /ʁə.fɔʁm/ |
| imperfect | reformais /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɛ/ |
reformais /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɛ/ |
reformait /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɛ/ |
reformions /ʁə.fɔʁ.mjɔ̃/ |
reformiez /ʁə.fɔʁ.mje/ |
reformaient /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | reformai /ʁə.fɔʁ.me/ |
reformas /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma/ |
reforma /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma/ |
reformâmes /ʁə.fɔʁ.mam/ |
reformâtes /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/ |
reformèrent /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | reformerai /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁe/ |
reformeras /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁa/ |
reformera /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁa/ |
reformerons /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/ |
reformerez /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁe/ |
reformeront /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | reformerais /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ |
reformerais /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ |
reformerait /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ |
reformerions /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reformeriez /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁje/ |
reformeraient /ʁə.fɔʁ.mə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | reforme /ʁə.fɔʁm/ |
reformes /ʁə.fɔʁm/ |
reforme /ʁə.fɔʁm/ |
reformions /ʁə.fɔʁ.mjɔ̃/ |
reformiez /ʁə.fɔʁ.mje/ |
reforment /ʁə.fɔʁm/ |
| imperfect2 | reformasse /ʁə.fɔʁ.mas/ |
reformasses /ʁə.fɔʁ.mas/ |
reformât /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma/ |
reformassions /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.sjɔ̃/ |
reformassiez /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.sje/ |
reformassent /ʁə.fɔʁ.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | reforme /ʁə.fɔʁm/ |
— | reformons /ʁə.fɔʁ.mɔ̃/ |
reformez /ʁə.fɔʁ.me/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Descendants edit
- → Turkish: reforme (via past participle)
Further reading edit
- “reformer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Comment-conjuguer.fr - online conjugation of "reformer"
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refōrmer
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