Recount vs Rehearse - What's the difference?
recount | rehearse |
To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of.
To rehearse; to enumerate.
To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
To narrate; to relate; to tell.
To practice by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy .
To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
* Charles Dickens
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
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Etymology 1
From and (etyl) reconter, variant of (etyl) raconter.Verb
(en verb)- The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- to recount one's blessings
Etymology 2
Anagrams
*rehearse
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Verb
(rehears)- There's no need to rehearse the same old argument; we've heard it before, and we all agree.
- The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives.
- The lawyer advised her client to rehearse her testimony before the trial date.
- 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.
- He has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen her.