Refactor vs Recreate - What's the difference?
refactor | recreate |
(computing) To rewrite existing source code in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without affecting its meaning or behaviour.
(writing) To rewrite existing text in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without intentionally affecting its meaning. Similar to, but sometimes involving more extensive restructuring than, copy editing.
To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
* Dryden
* Dr H. More
(reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
*, II.ii.3:
* Jeremy Taylor
To take recreation.
To create anew.
As verbs the difference between refactor and recreate
is that refactor is (computing) to rewrite existing source code in order to improve its readability, reusability or structure without affecting its meaning or behaviour while recreate is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven or recreate can be to create anew.refactor
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Verb
(refactoring) (en verb)- The code works, but I must refactor it before it is production quality.
- Two significant activities which to contribute to community projects, such as Wikipedia, are to refactor''' complicated articles into simpler ones, and to '''refactor duplicated content into reusable templates.
recreate
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Etymology 1
From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.Verb
(recreat)- Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying the sight more than any.
- These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
- In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge