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Recycle vs Recycled - What's the difference?

recycle | recycled |

As verbs the difference between recycle and recycled

is that recycle is to break down and reuse component materials while recycled is past tense of recycle.

As an adjective recycled is

that has been through a recycling process.

recycle

English

Verb

(Recycling) (recycl)
  • To break down and reuse component materials.
    • Recycled paper.
    Recycled plastic.
  • To reuse as a whole.
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
    • Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
  • To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
  • (ergative) To be recycled.
    • Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.

    Derived terms

    * recyclable * recyclability * recycle bin

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "recycle") ----

    recycled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (recycle)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been through a recycling process.
    • This cardboard is made from recycled paper

    Antonyms

    * unrecycled