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Remaps vs Reaps - What's the difference?

remaps | reaps |

As verbs the difference between remaps and reaps

is that remaps is third-person singular of remap while reaps is third-person singular of reap.

remaps

English

Verb

(head)
  • (remap)

  • remap

    English

    Verb

    (remapp)
  • To assign differently; to relabel or repurpose.
  • :He remapped the variable in the code to hold the value directly, instead of a pointer to the value.
  • To map again.
  • :Because the topography and development of the land changed so much in the floods, the region had to be remapped .
  • reaps

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (reap)
  • Anagrams

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    reap

    English

    Verb

  • To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
  • * Bible, Leviticus
  • When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field.
  • To gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works, in a good or a bad sense.
  • to reap a benefit from exertions
  • * Milton
  • Why do I humble thus myself, and, suing / For peace, reap nothing but repulse and hate?
  • * (Bible) Epistle to the Galatians, ch. 6, v.7
  • For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap. Gal.6.7
  • (computer science) To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
  • Until a child process is reaped , it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
  • (obsolete) To deprive of the beard; to shave.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * reaper * reap what one sows *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
  • Anagrams

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