Recycle vs Regurgitate - What's the difference?
recycle | regurgitate |
To break down and reuse component materials.
To reuse as a whole.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
(ergative) To be recycled.
To throw up or vomit; to eject what has previously been swallowed.
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To cough up from the gut to feed its young, as a bird or animal does.
(by extension) To repeat verbatim.
To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
In transitive terms the difference between recycle and regurgitate
is that recycle is to collect or place in a bin for recycling while regurgitate is to cough up from the gut to feed its young, as a bird or animal does.recycle
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Verb
(Recycling) (recycl)- Recycled paper.
- Recycled plastic.
- 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.
- Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.
Derived terms
* recyclable * recyclability * recycle binQuotations
* (English Citations of "recycle") ----regurgitate
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Verb
(regurgitat)- The young gulls were fed by their mother's regurgitated food.
- Food may regurgitate from the stomach into the mouth.
