Resurvey vs Retrospect - What's the difference?
resurvey | retrospect | Related terms |
To survey again; to perform another survey on.
* 1599 , , V. ii. 81:
consideration of past times
* 1853 , , "Villette":
* 1976 , edition, ISBN 0820311286, page 298:
To look or refer back to; to reflect on
* 1804: Alexander Hamilton, Letter to John Adams (Bartlett) - To give a correct idea of the circumstances.., it may be useful to retrospect to an early period.
Resurvey is a related term of retrospect.
As verbs the difference between resurvey and retrospect
is that resurvey is to survey again; to perform another survey on while retrospect is to look or refer back to; to reflect on.As a noun retrospect is
consideration of past times.resurvey
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Verb
(en verb)- with better heed / To re-survey them,
retrospect
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Noun
(en noun)- My mind, calmer and stronger now than last night, made for itself some imperious rules, prohibiting under deadly penalties all weak retrospect of happiness past; commanding a patient journeying through the wilderness of the present...
- Whether, like Colin, in retrospect Willie Lee and Baptist would feel that what has vanished was greater than what was achieved, is not something we can predict.