Recycle vs Renewable - What's the difference?
recycle | renewable |
To break down and reuse component materials.
To reuse as a whole.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
(ergative) To be recycled.
Able to be renewed; capable of renewal.
(of a resource) Sustainable; able to be regrown or renewed; having an ongoing or continuous source of supply; not finite.
As a verb recycle
is to break down and reuse component materials.As an adjective renewable is
able to be renewed; capable of renewal.As a noun renewable is
a thing that is renewable; especially, a renewable source of energy.recycle
English
Verb
(Recycling) (recycl)- Recycled paper.
- Recycled plastic.
- Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
- Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.
Derived terms
* recyclable * recyclability * recycle binQuotations
* (English Citations of "recycle") ----renewable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Solar and wind power are renewable , but coal is not.