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Recycles vs Precycles - What's the difference?

recycles | precycles |

As verbs the difference between recycles and precycles

is that recycles is while precycles is (precycle).

recycles

English

Verb

(head)
  • (recycle)
    • ----

    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") ----

    precycles

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (precycle)

    • precycle

    English

    Verb

    (precycl) (wikipedia precycle)
  • To avoid the need to recycle by not using prepackaging, for example.
  • * 2008 30 Oct. Waste Not, Want Not , by Tanis Taylor, in
    • Recyling is good, but precycling - cutting out packaging in the first place and buying only what you need - is better.