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Reboot vs Recycle - What's the difference?

reboot | recycle |

As verbs the difference between reboot and recycle

is that reboot is to cause a computer to execute its boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, especially after a system or power failure while recycle is to break down and reuse component materials.

As a noun reboot

is an instance of rebooting.

reboot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) An instance of rebooting.
  • (narratology) The restarting of a series storyline that discards all previous continuity.
  • Verb

  • (computing) To cause a computer to execute its boot process, effectively resetting the computer and causing the operating system to reload, especially after a system or power failure
  • (narratology) To discard all previous continuity in a series and restart the series.
  • (video games) To restart a (computer or video game) from the beginning.
  • See also

    * bootstrap

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----

    recycle

    English

    Verb

    (Recycling) (recycl)
  • To break down and reuse component materials.
  • Recycled paper.
    Recycled plastic.
  • To reuse as a whole.
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
  • Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
  • To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
  • (ergative) To be recycled.
  • Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.

    Derived terms

    * recyclable * recyclability * recycle bin

    Quotations

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