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Salvage vs Reck - What's the difference?

salvage | reck |

As nouns the difference between salvage and reck

is that salvage is the rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation or salvage can be while reck is back or reck can be .

As a verb salvage

is of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue.

salvage

Etymology 1

From (etyl) salver, from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • the rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation
  • the ship, crew or cargo so rescued
  • the compensation paid to the rescuers
  • the similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued
  • anything that has been put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted
  • damaged
  • * salvage cars auction.
  • Verb

    (salvag)
  • Of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue
  • * {{quote-news
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  • Of discarded goods, to put to use
  • To make new or restore for the use of being saved
  • Derived terms

    * salvageability * salvageable * salvager

    Etymology 2

    Alternative forms.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    reck

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • this son of mine not recking danger
  • * Burns
  • And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.
  • * 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
  • Ophelia:
    Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
    Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
    Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
    Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
    And recks not his own rede.
  • *
  • * 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
  • Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
  • To care; to matter.
  • * 1822 , John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio , vol. XIV
  • Little thou reck'st [2] of this sad store!
    Would thou might never reck [1] them more!
  • * 1900 , , Villanelle of Marguerite's , lines 10-11
  • *:She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
  • *:With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair
  • To concern, to be important
  • It recks not!
  • * Milton
  • What recks it them?
  • (obsolete) To think.
  • Derived terms

    * (l) * reckless