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Redo vs Redd - What's the difference?

redo | redd |

As verbs the difference between redo and redd

is that redo is to do again while redd is (colloquial) to put in order; to make tidy; generally with up or redd can be (pennsylvania) to clean, tidy up, to put in order or redd can be (rede).

As nouns the difference between redo and redd

is that redo is a repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc while redd is a spawning nest made by a fish.

redo

English

Verb

  • To do again.

    • Synonyms

    * (to do again) rework

    Antonyms

    * (to do again) undo

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 1, author=C. J. Hughes, title=Where Change Is Underfoot, and Overhead, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Eight years ago, the apartment cost $292,000, and the three redos totaled $48,000, but though he has no plans to sell, he thinks he could get $600,000 for the place today. }}

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    redd

    English

    Etymology 1

    Fusion of (etyl) . More at rid, ready.

    Alternative forms

    * red

    Verb

  • (colloquial) To put in order; to make tidy; generally with up.
    • ''to redd up a house.
  • (colloquial) To free from entanglement.
  • (colloquial) To free from embarrassment.
  • (Scotland, and, Northern England) To fix boundaries.
  • (Scotland, and, Northern England) To comb hair.
  • (Scotland, and, Northern England) To separate combatants.
  • (Scotland, and, Northern England) To settle, usually a quarrel.
  • (obsolete) To save, rescue, deliver
    • Þe children þerwiþ fram deþe he redde .'' — ''Floris and Blauncheflur
    Whi ne mighttestow wiþ lesse greue han yredd us fram helle?'' — ''Ancrene Riwle
    Derived terms
    * (l), (l)
    References
    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) rydhja, (etyl), compare Dutch redden.

    Alternative forms

    * red

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Pennsylvania) To clean, tidy up, to put in order.
    • I've got to redd up the place before your mother gets back.
    References
    *

    Etymology 3

    Origin obscure, possibly from the act of the fish scooping, clearing out a spawning place, see redd above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A spawning nest made by a fish.
  • * 2007, Michael Klesius, Fishes' Riches , National Geographic (March 2007), 32,
    • A female chinook salmon digs her redd , or nest, prior to spawning in Oregon's John Day River.

    Etymology 4

    From the archaic verb rede or read

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rede)
  • (obsolete) (read)
    • Verrelie that which I have heard and redd in the woorde of God'' — ''The Works of John Knox , 1841
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