Tradition vs Redefine - What's the difference?
tradition | redefine |
A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.
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A commonly held system. (rfex)
The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
* Blackstone
(obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
* Fuller
To give a new or different definition to a word
(computing) to define an area of storage, that has already been defined, in a different manner (e.g. both as character and numeric) - to allow multiple processing methods
As verbs the difference between tradition and redefine
is that tradition is to transmit by way of tradition; to hand down while redefine is to give a new or different definition to a word.As a noun tradition
is a part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.tradition
English
(wikipedia tradition)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.}}
- A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.
Derived terms
* traditional * traditionally * traditionalismSynonyms
* (a commonly held system) doctrineVerb
(en verb)- The following story is traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.