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Reapt vs Repat - What's the difference?

reapt | repat |

As a verb reapt

is past tense of reap.

As a noun repat is

a repatriate.

reapt

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (reap)

    • reap

    English

    Verb

  • To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
  • * Bible, Leviticus
    • When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
  • To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.
    • to reap a benefit from exertions
  • * Milton
    • Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
  • * (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
    • For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. Gal.6.7
  • (computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
    • Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
  • (obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * reaper * reap what one sows *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.

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    repat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A repatriate.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 17, author=Sophia Kishkovsky, title=2 Russian Churches, Split by War, Reuniting, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=One of the most important things you can do as a repat is to help in the reunification of the churches, much more so than anything you’re doing in television or business. }}

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