Recreate vs Regeneration - What's the difference?
recreate | regeneration |
To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
* Dryden
* Dr H. More
(reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
*, II.ii.3:
* Jeremy Taylor
To take recreation.
To create anew.
rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal.
(fantasy, gaming) restoration of health or hit points
* 1995 , David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game (page 202)
* 2003 , Bastion Press, E. W. Morton, Out for Blood
As a verb recreate
is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven or recreate can be to create anew.As a noun regeneration is
regeneration.recreate
English
Etymology 1
From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.Verb
(recreat)- Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying the sight more than any.
- These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
- In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
Etymology 2
From re-'' + ''create .Verb
(recreat)regeneration
English
Noun
(wikipedia regeneration)- ''The conversion of so many old industrial buildings into living quarters was a major factor in the regeneration .
- The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs).
- Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation.