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Recap vs Evaluate - What's the difference?

recap | evaluate |

As verbs the difference between recap and evaluate

is that recap is to seal (something) again with a cap or recap can be to recapitulate while evaluate is to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.

As a noun recap

is a recapitulation.

recap

English

Etymology 1

re- + cap

Verb

  • To seal (something) again with a cap.

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from recapitulate/recapitulation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A recapitulation.
    • Synonyms
    * (recapitulation) summarisation/summarization, summary, summing-up

    Verb

    (recapp)
  • To recapitulate.
    • Synonyms
    * (recapitulate) summarise/summarize, sum up

    Anagrams

    * * * English heteronyms

    evaluate

    English

    Verb

    (evaluat)
  • to draw conclusions from examining; to assess
    • It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
  • (mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression)
    • Evaluate this polynomial.
  • To return or have a specific value.
  • * 2006 , Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications , CRC Press (ISBN 9780824726690), page 201
    • Since element (15.1) evaluates' to an element of the center in any alternative algebra, (15.1) has to ' evaluate to a scalar multiple of the identity element of the Cayley-Dickson algebra.
  • * 2007 , James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9780387708720), page 165
    • In one type of such an integral, the integrand is only the probability density function, and the integral evaluates to a probability, which of course is a scalar.

    Derived terms

    * evaluator * evaluatee

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