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Modification vs Reshaping - What's the difference?

modification | reshaping |

As nouns the difference between modification and reshaping

is that modification is the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified while reshaping is the process by which something is reshaped.

As a verb reshaping is

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modification

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified
  • an alteration or adjustment to something
  • * Jim's modification to the radio's tuning resulted in clearer sound.
  • a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring
  • * Due to his sunbathing, Jim's body experienced modifications : he got a tan.
  • (linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language
  • * The Chinese word "kòu tóu" had a modification made to become the English "kowtow" .
  • (linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am'' => '' 'm'' in ''I'm )

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    * modify * modifier

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    reshaping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process by which something is reshaped.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 28, author=David Gates, title=The Postmodern Me, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In one sense or another, each of the stories is about the creation of private fictions, reshapings of the world in order to make it walkable. }}

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