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Rebased vs Rebused - What's the difference?

rebased | rebused |

As verbs the difference between rebased and rebused

is that rebased is past tense of rebase while rebused is past tense of rebus.

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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    rebused

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rebus)

    • rebus

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia rebus) (es)
  • A kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words.
  • (heraldry) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs.

    • Verb

  • To mark or indicate by a rebus.
  • * Fuller
    • He [John Morton] had a fair library rebused with More in text and Tun under it.

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