Refurbish vs Recycle - What's the difference?
refurbish | recycle |
To rebuild or replenish with all new material; to restore to original (or better) working order and appearance.
To break down and reuse component materials.
To reuse as a whole.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
(ergative) To be recycled.
As verbs the difference between refurbish and recycle
is that refurbish is to rebuild or replenish with all new material; to restore to original (or better) working order and appearance while recycle is to break down and reuse component materials.refurbish
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(Recycling) (recycl)- Recycled paper.
- Recycled plastic.
- Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
- Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.
