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Reuse vs Recreate - What's the difference?

reuse | recreate |

As verbs the difference between reuse and recreate

is that reuse is while recreate is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven or recreate can be to create anew.

reuse

English

Alternative forms

* re-use

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of salvaging or in some manner returning a discarded item into something usable.
  • (computing) code re-use'' indicates splitting program code into modules or classes so it can be re-used by other programs. ''data re-use refers to legal rights to re-use for publication, data that one has downloaded or licensed from a third party.

    • Verb

    (reus)
  • To use something that is considered past its usefulness, again (usually for something else).
    • The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment.

    Derived terms

    * reuser

    Anagrams

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    recreate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.

    Verb

    (recreat)
  • To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
  • * Dryden
    • Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying the sight more than any.
  • * Dr H. More
    • These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
  • (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
  • *, II.ii.3:
    • In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
  • To take recreation.

    • Etymology 2

    From re-'' + ''create .

    Verb

    (recreat)
  • To create anew.