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Coda vs Recap - What's the difference?

coda | recap |

As nouns the difference between coda and recap

is that coda is a person born hearing to deaf parents while recap is a recapitulation.

As a verb recap is

to seal (something) again with a cap or recap can be to recapitulate.

coda

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
  • (linguistics) The optional final part of a syllable, placed after its nucleus, and usually composed of one or more consonants.
  • The word ''salts'' has three consonants — ''/l/'', ''/t/'', and ''/s/'' — in its coda''', whereas the word ''glee'' has no '''coda at all.
  • (geology) In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
  • The conclusion of a statement.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
  • In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier.
  • Synonyms

    * (end of a music piece) finale

    See also

    * chorus * onset * refrain * rime * vowel ----

    recap

    English

    Etymology 1

    re- + cap

    Verb

  • To seal (something) again with a cap.
  • Etymology 2

    Shortened from recapitulate/recapitulation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A recapitulation.
  • Synonyms
    * (recapitulation) summarisation/summarization, summary, summing-up

    Verb

    (recapp)
  • To recapitulate.
  • Synonyms
    * (recapitulate) summarise/summarize, sum up

    Anagrams

    * * * English heteronyms