Reuse vs Repeat - What's the difference?
reuse | repeat |
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.
To use something that is considered past its usefulness, again (usually for something else).
(intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
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(obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
(legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
An iteration; a repetition.
A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
As verbs the difference between reuse and repeat
is that reuse is while repeat is (intransitive) to do or say again (and again).As a noun repeat is
an iteration; a repetition.reuse
English
Alternative forms
* re-useNoun
(en noun)Verb
(reus)- The students reused empty plastic bottles in their science experiment.
Derived terms
* reuserAnagrams
* ----repeat
English
Verb
(en verb)- (Waller)
Noun
(en noun)- We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.