Recurse vs Recourse - What's the difference?
recurse | recourse |
(computing) To execute a procedure recursively.
The act of seeking assistance or advice.
* Sir H. Wotton
* Dryden
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12
* 1929 , , chapter VIII, section ii:
(obsolete) A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
* Spenser
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Access; admittance.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To return; to recur.
* (rfdate) Foxe:
(obsolete) To have recourse; to resort.
* (Bishop Hacket)
As verbs the difference between recurse and recourse
is that recurse is to execute a procedure recursively while recourse is to return; to recur.As a noun recourse is
the act of seeking assistance or advice.recurse
English
Verb
(recurs)- The algorithm then recurses on the children of the current tree node.
Anagrams
* *recourse
English
Noun
- Thus died this great peer, in a time of great recourse unto him and dependence upon him.
- Our last recourse is therefore to our art.
- Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
- Nor were the wool prospects much better. The .
- swift recourse of flushing blood
- Preventive physic preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudinary.
- Give me recourse to him.
Derived terms
* legal recourseVerb
(recours)- The flame departing and recoursing .