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Recount vs Rehearse - What's the difference?

recount | rehearse |

As verbs the difference between recount and rehearse

is that recount is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of or recount can be to count or reckon again while rehearse is to repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.

As a noun recount

is retelling, narration, rendering or recount can be a counting again, as of votes.

recount

English

Etymology 1

From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Retelling, narration, rendering
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
  • The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
  • To rehearse; to enumerate.
  • to recount one's blessings

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A counting again, as of votes.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To count or reckon again.
  • Anagrams

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    rehearse

    English

    Verb

    (rehears)
  • To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
  • There's no need to rehearse the same old argument; we've heard it before, and we all agree.
  • To narrate; to relate; to tell.
  • The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives.
  • To practice by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy .
  • The lawyer advised her client to rehearse her testimony before the trial date.
  • To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
  • The director rehearsed the cast incessantly in the days leading up to opening night, and as a result they were tired and cranky when it arrived.
  • * Charles Dickens
  • He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her.

    Derived terms

    * rehearsal