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Rebirth vs Transform - What's the difference?

rebirth | transform |

As nouns the difference between rebirth and transform

is that rebirth is reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first while transform is (mathematics) the result of a transformation.

As a verb transform is

to change greatly the appearance or form of.

rebirth

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.
  • * 1989 , Saral Jhingran, Aspects of Hindu morality , page 35:
  • A theistic version of the above doctrine of transmigratory existence is presented best in the Bhagavadgit? which compares the rebirth of the soul in another body to changing of clothes,
  • Revival, reinvigoration.
  • * 2009 , Richard Taruskin, Music in the Nineteenth Century :
  • And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before,
  • Spiritual renewal.
  • * 2000 , Joseph Stoutzenberger, Celebrating Sacraments , page 132:
  • The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life.
  • * 2011 , Chad T. Pierce, Spirits and the Proclamation of Christ , page 233:
  • Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.

    Synonyms

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    See also

    * reborn * reincarnation * renaissance * revival * metempsychosis

    Anagrams

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    transform

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To change greatly the appearance or form of.
  • The alchemists sought to transform lead into gold.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Love may transform me to an oyster.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
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  • To change the nature, condition or function of; to change in nature, disposition, heart, character, etc.; to convert.
  • * Bible, Romans xii. 2
  • Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
  • (mathematics) To subject to a transformation; to change into another form without altering the value.
  • (electricity) To subject to the action of a transformer.
  • (genetics) To subject (a cell) to transformation.
  • To undergo a transformation.
  • Synonyms

    * (change greatly the appearance or form of) alter, change, convert, make over, transmogrify * (sense) alter, change * (undergo a transformation) alter, change

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) the result of a transformation
  • Derived terms

    * Fourier transform