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Redo vs Redefine - What's the difference?

redo | redefine |

As verbs the difference between redo and redefine

is that redo is to do again while redefine is to give a new or different definition to a word.

As a noun redo

is a repeated action; a doing again, refurbishment, etc.

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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    redefine

    English

    Verb

  • 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

    • Derived terms

    * redefinition

    Anagrams

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