Repeat vs Recast - What's the difference?
repeat | recast |
(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.
To cast or throw again.
*, I.47:
To mould again.
To reproduce in a new form.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p.33:
The act or process of recasting.
(linguistics) An utterance translated into another grammatical form.
As verbs the difference between repeat and recast
is that repeat is to do or say again (and again) while recast is to cast or throw again.As nouns the difference between repeat and recast
is that repeat is an iteration; a repetition while recast is the act or process of recasting.repeat
English
Verb
(en verb)- (Waller)
Noun
(en noun)- We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
See also
* redundantrecast
English
Verb
- the Roman gentlemen armed at all assayes, in the middest of their running-race, would cast and recast themselves from one to another horse.
- The whole bell had to be recast although it had only one tiny, hardly visible crack.
- Our conception of the world rises in us as our intellect recasts the impressions it receives from without into the forms of time, space, and causality.
Noun
(en noun)- Adults may use recasts to suggest corrections to mistakes in children's speech.