Recycle vs Repurpose - What's the difference?
recycle | repurpose |
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 reuse for a different purpose, on a long-term basis, without alteration.
To alter to make more suited for a different purpose.
As verbs the difference between recycle and repurpose
is that recycle is to break down and reuse component materials while repurpose is to reuse for a different purpose, on a long-term basis, without alteration.recycle
English
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") ----repurpose
English
Verb
(repurpos)- The town common was repurposed as a practice field.
- The church was repurposed as a nightclub by lighting changes and removing the pews, but it never opened.