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Rework vs Alter - What's the difference?

rework | alter |

As a noun rework

is the act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.

As a verb rework

is to redo, correct, or rebuild.

As an adjective alter is

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rework

English

(wikipedia rework)

Noun

  • The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
    • They sent the assembly back to the shop for rework .
  • (in particular, food manufacturing) Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
  • Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
    • They received the rework back from the shop.
  • Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
    • The schedule has been pushed back because of the rework .
  • (countable) An instance of reworking.

    • Verb

  • To redo, correct, or rebuild.
    • You'll have to rework the crank assembly to incorporate the changes.

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    alter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * altre (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To change the form or structure of.
  • * Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
    • My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
  • * Shakespeare
    • No power in Venice can alter a decree.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
  • To become different.
  • To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • (obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
    • (Milton)

    Derived terms

    * alterer * alterability * alterative * alterable * alterably

    Related terms

    * alteration * alternate * alternative

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