Recoil vs Redux - What's the difference?
recoil | redux |
A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
The state or condition of having recoiled.
* F. W. Robertson
(firearms) The amount of energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
(obsolete) To retire, withdraw.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
* Milton
* De Quincey
To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
(of a topic) Redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.
* 2004 , Robert A. Levy, Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process ,
As a noun recoil
is a starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.As a verb recoil
is .As an adjective redux is
(of a topic) redone, restored, brought back, or revisited.recoil
English
(wikipedia recoil)Noun
(en noun)- the recoil of nature, or of the blood
- The recoil from formalism is skepticism.
Verb
- that rude rout
- Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle / Iread you rest, and to your bowres recoyle .
- Evil on itself shall back recoil .
- The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
- He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* recoil onAnagrams
*redux
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Adjective
(-)- Company policy redux .
- Dirty tricks redux .
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- 10. It's Microsoft Redux All Over Again. Maybe the fat lady hasn't crooned the final note, but the petite lady who carried the most weight, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, wrote the denouement to the Microsoft antitrust fiasco.