Recap vs Reap - What's the difference?
recap | reap |
To seal (something) again with a cap.
To recapitulate.
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
* Bible, Leviticus
To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.
* Milton
* (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
(computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
(obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
As verbs the difference between recap and reap
is that recap is to seal (something) again with a cap or recap can be to recapitulate while reap is to cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.As nouns the difference between recap and reap
is that recap is a recapitulation while reap is a bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.recap
English
Etymology 1
re- + capVerb
Etymology 2
Shortened from recapitulate/recapitulationSynonyms
* (recapitulation) summarisation/summarization, summary, summing-upVerb
(recapp)Synonyms
* (recapitulate) summarise/summarize, sum upAnagrams
* * * English heteronymsreap
English
Verb
- When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
- to reap a benefit from exertions
- Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
- For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap.
Gal.6.7
- Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
- (Shakespeare)
