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Reuse vs Repeat - What's the difference?

reuse | repeat |

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-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

    * ----

    repeat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  • (Waller)
  • (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iteration; a repetition.
  • We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
  • 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.
  • See also

    * redundant