What's the difference between befit and refit?

Befit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To be suitable to; to suit; to become.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) IN ORDER THAT ASIAN AMERICANS BE MORE ADEQUATELY PROVIDED WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO: (1) have a thorough educational campaign over a long period of time to help Asians overcome their negative prejudices against mental illness, (2) devise culturally relevant diagnostic techniques, and (3) have treatment consonant with the cultural backgrounds of the patients and befitting the role expectations of the patients.
  • (2) The road narrative befits a nation in love with the motor car and networked with roads – but also a country that is so vast.
  • (3) Meanwhile, as befits two heavyweights, there was, before Paris, an edge detectable in Tinseth's voice as he talked of the "strong rivalry" and accused Airbus of holding back orders for the show.
  • (4) In this age of frank public discourse, it ill-befits our newspapers or broadcasters – increasingly given to lurid language themselves – to chastise the PM for language that would make few people blush.
  • (5) The sort of residence befitting the former leader of the most powerful nation on earth.
  • (6) At the FSA she gave a press conference dressed, as befits her name, in leather jacket and trousers and was promptly dubbed Sexy Suzi by the tabloids.
  • (7) His chairman, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, was more magnificently pompous, as befits an ex-foreign secretary.
  • (8) With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of “Southwark Street” incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.
  • (9) It was conjectured that subjects in the positive condition were annoyed by the disabled person's display of "normal" characteristics, whereas in the negative condition they sympathetically accepted the disabled person's inadequacies as befitting a victim of severe misfortune.
  • (10) A toast, marmalade optional, to Colin Firth, who has quit a film version of Paddington with a grace befitting this most cordial of bears.
  • (11) Steve Bruce bemoaned Chris Foy’s decision not to dismiss Gary Cahill for what he described as a dive more befitting the ballet as Hull City endured a ninth match without a win after succumbing to the Premier League leaders, Chelsea.
  • (12) Otherwise we fail to understand the thinking of others, or to realize deep down that the brother or sister we wish to reach and redeem, with the power and closeness of love, counts more than their positions, distant as they may be from what we hold as true.” To emphasize the point he added: “Harsh and divisive language does not befit the tongue of a pastor, it has no place in his heart; although it may momentarily seem to win the day, on the enduring allure of goodness and love remains truly convincing.” The pope ended his speech with two recommendations.
  • (13) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
  • (14) As befits Lewis, it was a move that was made both for his team, a way to motivate them and perhaps deflect media attention away from them, and for himself, he certainly didn't exactly seem to mind all that media attention, at least most of the time.
  • (15) Lady Gaga: Artpop Last month, as befits the first single from the third album by a multi-platinum selling popstar, the video for Lady Gaga's Applause was simultaneously premiered on the US breakfast TV show Good Morning America and video screens in New York's Times Square.
  • (16) As befitted a youth movement that had been born and flourished under Thatcherism, dance music had always been marked by a sharp entrepreneurial spirit: unlike punk or psychedelia, there was never much talk of "selling out" in clubland.
  • (17) "His behaviour is not befitting of any player wearing a Liverpool shirt and Luis is aware that he has let himself and everyone associated with the club down.
  • (18) As befits its goals, human perception of visual motion largely evades this diversity of cues for image form; direction and rate of motion are perceived (with few exceptions) in a fashion that does not depend on the physical characteristics of the object.
  • (19) Officials have repeatedly sought to justify the millions spent on Nkandla, insisting it was essential to provide Zuma with security befitting a head of state.
  • (20) Another UN official who worked in Damascus early in the conflict told the Guardian: “The UN country team knew from the early days of the conflict that neither the government nor its authorised list of local associations for partnership with the UN could be considered as befitting the humanitarian principles of independence, neutrality and impartiality.

Refit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fit or prepare for use again; to repair; to restore after damage or decay; as, to refit a garment; to refit ships of war.
  • (v. t.) To fit out or supply a second time.
  • (v. i.) To obtain repairs or supplies; as, the fleet returned to refit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Controversy exists as to whether patients who are asymptomatic, long term PMMA contact lens wearers demonstrating an acceptable clinical ocular response should be routinely refit into hard gas permeable lenses.
  • (2) The company said it expected to refit 215 shops by the end of the year, around 12% of its entire estate of 1,700 bakeries.
  • (3) What you can do is buy in a different kind of capability, possibly from the Americans, and refitting other airframes with some of the technology that would have been inside Nimrod.
  • (4) The management of soft contact lens related GPC has included refitting with hard lenses, specifically the newer rigid gas permeable (RGP) lenses.
  • (5) In the early 1990s, the then defence secretary and Edinburgh Pentlands MP Malcolm Rifkind sacrificed thousands of jobs at the nearby Rosyth dockyard by giving the multi-billion pound Trident nuclear submarine refitting contract to Devonport dockyard in Plymouth, Saddler said.
  • (6) China is refitting a former Soviet aircraft carrier, the Variag, and is building several carriers itself.its own.
  • (7) Refitting these subjects with an experimental contact lens which caused a 6% increase in corneal thickness did not further alter the corneal sensitivity.
  • (8) But you sense it's a relief to be allowed to obsess about the interesting things, about Yeats and Harold Bloom's take on Hamlet, instead of management meetings, fundraising and toilet refits.
  • (9) The data suggest that with concerted effort most keratoconus patients may be successfully refitted despite initial contact lens failure.
  • (10) Alternating cycles of refitting and refinement have resulted in a model structure with an R-factor of 18.7% for 27,526 reflections from 7.5 to 1.7 A resolution (96% of the data).
  • (11) The women retire because owners don’t want them in the interior of a boat after a certain age – late 30s and you’re off.” The majority of owners buy superyachts secondhand via brokers and refit them to their tastes.
  • (12) Whitworth Gallery Manchester After a £15m refit and extension, the Whitworth reopens with multiple exhibitions and displays, including key works and new commissions by Cornelia Parker, the beautiful watercolours of Thomas Schütte, and a 45-metre-long gunpowder drawing by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang (who devised the unforgettable fireworks for the Beijing Olympics), originally conceived for the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
  • (13) Affected customers will be contacted about visiting a mechanic to have their cars refitted.
  • (14) West Ham face compensation risk over state aid for Olympic Stadium refit Read more It is, in short, all a long way from Green Street.
  • (15) As well as opening new UK stores, the chocolate retailer will relocate some of its existing shops to larger, more prime sites, as well as refitting some stores.
  • (16) A second building for secondary students is being refitted in what used to be Wembley town hall.
  • (17) Volkswagen Group UK is committed to supporting its customers and its retailers through the coming weeks.” VW has set aside €6.5bn (£4.8bn) to cover the cost of the crisis, so motorists will not have to pay for the refit.
  • (18) No significant relationship between weight change and diaphragm size change was found, which suggests that refitting the vaginal diaphragm after weight loss or gain is unnecessary.
  • (19) All patients were successfully refitted with daily-wear rigid or thin, hydrogel contact lenses following simple clinical techniques.
  • (20) A Russian ship carrying attack helicopters that was prevented from sailing to Syria has been refitted with a Russian flag, rousing suspicions it is preparing for a second attempt.

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