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Recede vs Retread - What's the difference?

recede | retread |

As verbs the difference between recede and retread

is that recede is while retread is to replace the traction-providing surface of a vehicle that employs tires, tracks or treads or retread can be to tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.

As a noun retread is

a used tire whose surface, the tread, has been replaced to extend its life and use or retread can be (sometimes|figurative) a return over ground previously covered; a retraversal or repetition.

recede

English

Verb

(reced)
  • To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
  • * Dryden
    • Like the hollow roar / Of tides receding from the instituted shore.
  • * Bentley
    • All bodies moved circularly endeavour to recede from the center.
  • To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor.
    • to recede conquered territory
  • To take back.

    • Synonyms

    * withdraw

    Derived terms

    * receding

    Related terms

    * cede * recedence * recession * recess * recessive

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    retread

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (re-) + (noun)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To replace the traction-providing surface of a vehicle that employs tires, tracks or treads.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A used tire whose surface, the tread, has been replaced to extend its life and use.
  • (military, slang) a person who re-entered military service in World War Two after serving in World War One.
  • * 1950 , Air Force Association, United States Army, Air Force Magazine :
    • In Our War the Retreads usually slinked in over-aged, over-weight and overcautious in the face of a new generation.
  • * 1971 , Brian Garfield, The thousand-mile war: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians :
    • They were retreads and recruits under a small cadre of Regular Army officers and noncoms.
  • * 1976 , James Jones, Art Weithas, WW II: a chronicle of soldiering :
    • We retreads upset everybody.
  • * 2006 , Keith E Bonn, When the Odds Were Even :
    • As with the 100th Division, many of the replacements joining the 103d were "retreads" from the technical services or antiaircraft and aviation troops...

    Etymology 2

    From (re-) + (tread) (verb)

    Alternative forms

    * re-tread

    Verb

  • to tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.
  • * 1818 , Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    • As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists. Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sometimes, figurative) A return over ground previously covered; a retraversal or repetition.
  • * 1998 , Frank Rich, Hot seat: theater criticism for the New York times, 1980-1993
    • But The West Side Waltz is otherwise a tedious retread of Mr. Thompson's previous effort, On Golden Pond.

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