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Replicate vs Recreate - What's the difference?

replicate | recreate |

As verbs the difference between replicate and recreate

is that replicate is to make a copy (replica) of while recreate is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.

As a noun replicate

is an outcome of a replication procedure.

As an adjective replicate

is folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.

replicate

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make a copy (replica) of.
  • (label) To repeat (an experiment or trial) with a consistent result.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.}}
  • (label) To reply.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • an outcome of a procedure.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany, zoology) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.
  • a replicate leaf or petal
    the replicate margin of a shell

    recreate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.

    Verb

    (recreat)
  • To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
  • * Dryden
  • Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying the sight more than any.
  • * Dr H. More
  • These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
  • (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
  • *, II.ii.3:
  • In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
  • To take recreation.
  • Etymology 2

    From re-'' + ''create .

    Verb

    (recreat)
  • To create anew.