Rehash vs Alter - What's the difference?
rehash | alter |
To rework old material (physical material, ideas, documents etc), redo some work, with some variations.
(computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
(computing) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
In transitive terms the difference between rehash and alter
is that rehash is to rework old material (physical material, ideas, documents etc), redo some work, with some variations while alter is to castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).As a noun rehash
is something reworked, or made up from old materials.rehash
English
Verb
(es)- Today's parliamentary session only rehashed last week's arguments.
- The CEO of the company only rehashed a speech for the news conference.
- The general rehashed plans for the war.
Noun
(es)- He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.
alter
English
Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)
