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Innovation vs Reform - What's the difference?

innovation | reform |

As nouns the difference between innovation and reform

is that innovation is the act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc while reform is amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

As a verb reform is

to put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct.

innovation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of innovating; the introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Karen McVeigh
    • , volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= US rules human genes can't be patented , passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation .}}
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  • A change effected by innovating; a change in customs;
  • Something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.
  • A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.

    • reform

    English

    (wikipedia reform) (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

    • Synonyms

    * reformation * amendment * rectification * correction

    Derived terms

    * monetary reform

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct.
    • to reform''' a profligate man; to '''reform corrupt manners or morals
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
  • To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
  • (intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
    • This product contains reformed meat.
    The regiment reformed after surviving the first attack.
    The pop group reformed for one final tour.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 21 , author=Jason Heller , title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes —the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.}}

    Synonyms

    * amend * correct * rectify * mend * repair * better * improve * restore * reclaim

    Anagrams

    * former ----