Recreate vs Retrofit - What's the difference?
recreate | retrofit |
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.
To add or substitute new parts or components to some device, structure etc., that were not previously available; to modernize
To fix an older version (or older versions) as part of the same process of fixing the newest version; to backport
of, relating to, or being a retrofit
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As verbs the difference between recreate and retrofit
is that recreate is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven or recreate can be to create anew while retrofit is to add or substitute new parts or components to some device, structure etc, that were not previously available; to modernize.As a noun retrofit is
something that has been retrofitted.As an adjective retrofit is
of, relating to, or being a retrofit.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)retrofit
English
(wikipedia retrofit)Verb
(transitive, or, intransitive)- The bug was so bad that we had to retrofit our patch to the last three releases, as well as the newest release.