Rebase vs Rebate - What's the difference?
rebase | rebate |
(dentistry) To replace the base of a denture.
(computing) To modify core data from which other data is derived in such a way that the final meaning is unchanged.
(computing) To change the base address of.
* 2006 , Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing
A deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.
The return of part of an amount already paid.
(photography) The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
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A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
To diminish or lessen something
To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
* Shakespeare
To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
To abate; to withdraw.
As verbs the difference between rebase and rebate
is that rebase is to replace the base of a denture while rebate is to deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment.As a noun rebate is
a deduction from an amount to be paid; an abatement.rebase
English
Verb
- When a DLL must be loaded at an address different from its preferred address (because the preferred address is unavailable), the kernel must rebase the DLL, which consists of updating (fixing up) all addresses in the DLL so that they refer to its new location in memory.
Anagrams
* ----rebate
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(rebat)- But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge.
- (Foxe)