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Rebased vs Rebated - What's the difference?

rebased | rebated |

As verbs the difference between rebased and rebated

is that rebased is (rebase) while rebated is (rebate).

As an adjective rebated is

blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc).

rebased

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rebase)

    • rebase

    English

    Verb

  • (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
    • 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.

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    rebated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc.).
  • *2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 288:
  • *:Even with blunted lances and filed-down or ‘rebated ’ blades, grave injury and death were all too frequent, and tended to ‘disturb the cheerfulness of such events’, as a contemporary Spanish herald understatedly put it.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (rebate)

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