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Refresh vs Repair - What's the difference?

refresh | repair |

As verbs the difference between refresh and repair

is that refresh is to renew or revitalize while repair is to restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.

As nouns the difference between refresh and repair

is that refresh is the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc while repair is the act of repairing something.

refresh

English

Verb

(wikipedia refresh) (es)
  • To renew or revitalize.
  • Sleep refreshes the body and the mind.
  • (computing) To reload a document and show any new changes, especially a webpage on the internet.
  • * 2007 , Beth Harbison, Shoe Addicts Anonymous
  • She refreshed the page. She was still the high bidder. Good.
  • (computing) To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.
  • * 2007 , Philip C Plumlee, Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)
  • You can save your code, refresh your browser, and see a change instantly. This simple trick turns a lowly web browser into a development environment
  • To perform the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
  • Anagrams

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    Noun

    (es)
  • The periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
  • (computing) The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data.
  • repair

    English

    Etymology 1

    Coined between 1300 and 1350 from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of repairing something.
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  • The result of repairing something.
  • The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
  • Derived terms
    * disrepair

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
  • to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship
    to repair a shattered fortune
  • * Milton
  • secret refreshings that repair his strength
  • * Wordsworth
  • Do thou, as thou art wont, repair / My heart with gladness.
  • To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
  • to repair a loss or damage
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * repairable / reparable, repairer

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Cognate to repatriate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
  • our annual repair to the mountains
  • * Clarendon
  • The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.
  • A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
  • * Dryden
  • There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transfer oneself to another place.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair .
  • *1850 , , (Jane Eyre)
  • *:I heard the visitors repair to their chambers.
  • *
  • *:That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde. I had nothing more exciting on hand than to wait for word from Von Lindowe. I sincerely hoped that it would not be long, for it is not my forte to sit twiddling my thumbs.
  • Derived terms
    * repatriate

    Etymology 3

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to pair again