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Refrigerate vs Recreate - What's the difference?

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Refrigerate is a related term of recreate.


In lang=en terms the difference between refrigerate and recreate

is that refrigerate is now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator while recreate is to take recreation.

As verbs the difference between refrigerate and recreate

is that refrigerate is to cool down, make cool while recreate is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven or recreate can be to create anew.

refrigerate

English

Verb

(refrigerat)
  • To cool down, make cool.
  • * , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.149:
  • the other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.
  • Now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator.
  • Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.

    See also

    * (refrigeration) ----

    recreate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.

    Verb

    (recreat)
  • To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
  • * Dryden
  • 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.
  • * Dr H. More
  • These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
  • (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
  • *, II.ii.3:
  • 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.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
  • To take recreation.
  • Etymology 2

    From re-'' + ''create .

    Verb

    (recreat)
  • To create anew.