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Rehash vs Rearrange - What's the difference?

rehash | rearrange |

As verbs the difference between rehash and rearrange

is that rehash is to rework old material (physical material, ideas, documents etc), redo some work, with some variations while rearrange is .

As a noun rehash

is something reworked, or made up from old materials.

rehash

English

Verb

(es)
  • To rework old material (physical material, ideas, documents etc), redo some work, with some variations.
    • 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.
  • (computing) To recompute the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

    • Noun

    (es)
  • Something reworked, or made up from old materials.
    • He wrote a bad rehash of an earlier essay.
  • (computing) A recomputation of the structure of a hash table, taking into account any newly added items.

    • rearrange

    English

    Verb

    (rearrang)
  • To change the order or arrangement of (one or more items).