What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Repose vs Reclaim - What's the difference?

repose | reclaim |

As verbs the difference between repose and reclaim

is that repose is while reclaim is (senseid)to return land to a suitable condition for use.

As a noun reclaim is

(obsolete|falconry) the calling back of a hawk.

repose

English

Noun

  • (dated) rest, sleep
  • * 1908 ,
    • Dark and deserted as it was, the night was full of small noises, song and chatter and rustling, telling of the busy little population who were up and about, plying their trades and vocations through the night till sunshine should fall on them at last and send them off to their well-earned repose .
  • *
    • You would not rob us of our repose , would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties?
  • quietness, ease; peace, calmness
  • * Dante Divine Comedy,Inferno, Canto 10
    • So may thy lineage find at last repose I thus adjured him
  • (geology) period between eruptions of a volcano.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

  • To lie at rest; to rest.
  • * Chapman
    • Within a thicket I reposed .
  • To lie; to be supported.
    • trap reposing on sand
  • To lay, to set down.
  • * Chapman
    • But these thy fortunes let us straight repose / In this divine cave's bosom.
  • * Woodward
    • Pebbles reposed in those cliffs amongst the earth are left behind.
  • To place, have, or rest; to set; to entrust.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.
  • To reside in something.
  • (figuratively) To remain or abide restfully without anxiety or alarms.
  • * I. Taylor
    • It is upon these that the soul may repose .

    External links

    * * * ----

    reclaim

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (senseid)To return land to a suitable condition for use.
  • To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
  • To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
  • * Milton
    • They, hardened more by what might most reclaim , / Grieving to see his glory took envy.
  • * Rogers
    • It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
  • * Sir E. Hoby
    • Your error, in time reclaimed , will be venial.
  • To claim something back; to repossess.
  • To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
  • * Dryden
    • an eagle well reclaimed
  • To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  • * Dryden
    • The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
  • To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
  • * Waterland
    • Scripture reclaims', and the whole Catholic church ' reclaims , and Christian ears would not hear it.
  • * Bain
    • At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.
    (Fuller)
  • (obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
    • (Spenser)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
  • (obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
    • The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].
  • An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.

    • Anagrams

    * *