Respot vs Reshot - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between respot and reshot

is that respot is to replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table while reshot is past tense of reshoot.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.

(railways)

* 1963 , Central Railway Club of Buffalo, Chronicle (volumes 72-76, page 79)

This method insures that the stopping of cars will not gradually fall out of tolerance with a consequent loss of time to respot .

* 1990 , American Railway Bridge and Building Association, Proceedings (page 109)

Sanding should be performed in conjunction with fueling to avoid respotting locomotives.

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(head)

(reshoot)

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To shoot again, especially of video recording.

They had to reshoot the scene because the explosion made everyone jump.

(en noun)

An instance of reshooting.

After several reshoots , the director was finally happy with the scene.

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