Repurpose vs Repose - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between repurpose and repose

is that repurpose is to reuse for a different purpose, on a long-term basis, without alteration while repose is to lie at rest; to rest.

As a noun repose is

rest, sleep.

repurpose

English

Verb

(repurpos)

To reuse for a different purpose, on a long-term basis, without alteration.

The town common was repurposed as a practice field.

To alter to make more suited for a different purpose.

The church was repurposed as a nightclub by lighting changes and removing the pews, but it never opened.

Synonyms

* (reuse) * (alter) remodel

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 .

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