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Overhaul vs Reconstruction - What's the difference?

overhaul | reconstruction |

As a noun overhaul

is a major repair, remake, renovation, or revision.

As a verb overhaul

is to modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.

As a proper noun reconstruction is

a period of the history of the united states from 1865 to 1877, during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex-confederate states, the ex-confederate leaders, and the freedmen (ex-slaves) after the american civil war.

overhaul

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A major repair, remake, renovation, or revision.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul . Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
  • (firefighting) The process after the fire appears extinguished in which the firefighters search the structure for signs of hot spots that may cause the structure to reignite. Often this includes the process of salvage under the blanket term, salvage and overhaul.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To modernize, repair, renovate, or revise completely.
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
    • Although they believe they can overhaul their 2-0 deficit, they cannot afford to be as lethargic as this at Camp Nou, and the time is surely approaching when Manuel Pellegrini's faith in Martín Demichelis wavers.
  • To pass, overtake, or travel past.
  • * 1967 , edition, ISBN 0553025171, page 109:
    • In theory there was a runner ahead of him who would pause to sleep. Who would falter and fall. Who would despair at the size of the desert. Because Logan did none of these he would overhaul the runner and kill him.
  • (nautical) To keep (running rigging) clear, and see that no hitch occurs.

    • reconstruction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
  • The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
    • The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.
  • A result of an attempt to understand in detail how a certain result or event occurred.
    • The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious.

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