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Provide vs Reseat - What's the difference?

provide | reseat |

As verbs the difference between provide and reseat

is that provide is to make a living; earn money for necessities while reseat is to provide (eg a room) with more, or new, seats.

provide

English

Verb

(provid)
  • To make a living; earn money for necessities.
  • It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
  • To act to prepare for something.
  • To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
  • The contract provides that the work be well done.
    I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.
  • To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
  • Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
    We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
  • To furnish (with), cause to be present.
  • * Arbuthnot
  • Rome was well provided with corn.
  • To make possible or attainable.
  • He provides us with an alternative option.
  • * Milton
  • Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide .
  • (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
  • (Ben Jonson)
  • To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor .
  • (Prescott)

    Derived terms

    * provider

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    reseat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide (e.g. a room) with more, or new, seats.
  • We should reseat this cinema - the old seats are worn.
  • To seat (someone) again, to give somebody a different seat.
  • We have to reseat you, sir: this seat is reserved for the guest speaker.
  • To sit down again.
  • I reseated after standing up to applaud the prizewinner.
  • (electronics) To plug (something) back into its socket.
  • Try reseating your video adapter, and see if that fixes your computer's problems.
  • (engineering) To fit (something, especially a valve) back into its place.
  • To ensure that there are no leaks, clean the surfaces before you reseat the valve.

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