What's the difference between recap and recapitulate?

Recap


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
  • (2) Syringes that have been redesigned to eliminate the need for recapping offer a major safety advantage.
  • (3) They’ve not been reading so we need to recap and then catch up.
  • (4) A set of programs, known as the ReCAP ISCN Translator, is used to create additional database records describing in detail the chromosome abnormalities present in each patient.
  • (5) To recap, the budget deficit is reducing at pre-cut projections, the national debt is increasing at an accelerated pace, we are printing money with the enthusiasm of crack-addicted forgers, we are selling anything that is not nailed down and still have a rising overall tax burden while spending less and less on public services.
  • (6) One third of the injuries were related to recapping.
  • (7) Photograph: David Levene 10.19am BST Royal Mail shares surge - a recap OK, let's recap on this morning's events.
  • (8) 12.03pm BST Bank of England - a recap OK, that's the end of the press conference.
  • (9) A brief conclusion recaps Mrs. F.'s discharge course and reviews some specific problems associated with right ventricular infarcts, of which critical care nurses need to be aware.
  • (10) To recap, Beach House formed in 2004 when French-born Victoria, a theatre graduate, vocalist and organist, finished her studies and moved to Baltimore to pursue a music project with an old friend.
  • (11) Syringes were flushed with air, needle recapped and replaced into their plastic cover.
  • (12) Over 12 months, the rate of recapping needles used for venipuncture and for percutaneous medication injections fell from 61% to 16% (p less than .0001).
  • (13) Markets would react positively to an adequate bank recap solution.
  • (14) To recap: Elton John called for a boycott of Dolce & Gabbana after the pair described babies born through IVF as “synthetic” in a magazine interview.
  • (15) Globin mRNAs containing (32)P label only in the cap (m(7)G(32)pppm(6)A(m)-) were prepared by recapping beta-eliminated globin mRNAs with the vaccinia virus enzymes, [alpha-(32)P]GTP, and unlabeled S-adenosylmethionine.
  • (16) Needlestick injuries were too few in number during the study period to detect any change accompanying the decreased recapping rate.
  • (17) Recap At a video-game launch party onboard an aircraft carrier, Patrick and his co-worker Owen meet Kevin, a Brit who Patrick flirts with unsuccessfully before learning he’s been hitting on his new boss.
  • (18) On the other hand, users of a simple device designed to reduce the risk of injury when recapping used needles were shown to incur a needlestick only once in every 16,100 venepunctures performed (P less than 0.001).
  • (19) "You wanted an example of an intelligent tattoo," recaps Matt Heath.
  • (20) These cartridge-needle safety units allow for only one-time use, thus doing away with the possibility of recapping.

Recapitulate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.
  • (v. i.) To sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A DNA fragment containing rat POMC 5'-flanking sequences from -323 to -34 recapitulated both basal pituitary cell-specific and hormonally stimulated expression in adult mice when fused to a heterologous thymidine kinase promoter.
  • (2) A certain recapitulation of the ontogenetic development of neuronal differentiation in PNETs is given by the fact that chromogranin A immunoreactivity can regularly be seen already in poorly differentiated neurons and synaptophysin in well-differentiated ones.
  • (3) Certain features of ALS, PD, and AD are recapitulated in three animal models described in this review.
  • (4) When developing cultures of Dictyostelium discoideum are disaggregated at any time prior to cell wall formation and challenged to reinitiate development, amoebae will progress through the original sequence of morphogenetic stages, but the second time through they will do so in roughly one-tenth the original time, a process known as 'rapid recapitulation'.
  • (5) An examination was made of the relationship of length of abuse to (a) suicidal ideation reported by or of the boy, (b) threats by the offender directed at the victim, and (c) a history of recapitulation of sexual abuse.
  • (6) In some areas of the stratified structures, the basal layer recapitulated the K19 expression pattern of the oral region from which they had originated.
  • (7) We suggest that the long process of painting 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke' recapitulated and made restitution for the murder, encapsulating it so that compulsive expression of violent ideation was largely reduced, allowing other memories and activities to be engaged and expressed.
  • (8) In the recapitulation the author discusses the effect of the parasitic way of life of the larval forms of Fasciola hepatica on their energy metabolism.
  • (9) In contrast, it is normal in all aspects of growth, in the sequence of morphogenetic stages, in spore formation, in the capacity to rapidly recapitulate morphogenesis, and in the erasure event and subsequent program of dedifferentiation.
  • (10) The experimental infections were fatal on the 8th and 9th days postinoculation in the orally and intramuscularly inoculated birds, respectively, and produced hemorrhages and necrotic lesions that recapitulated those of the index case.
  • (11) 2) In light of the usual recapitulation of earlier conflicts during pregnancy as noted by drive theory, perinatal loss may lead to an intensification of intrapsychic conflicts.
  • (12) The study shows that in the hamster tracheal epithelium, the stages of normal fetal development and regeneration following injury, which have been characterized previously in vivo, are recapitulated in vitro.
  • (13) The past twenty years' achievements in behavioural and pharmacological treatments for agoraphobia are briefly recapitulated.
  • (14) Histochemical peculiarities of the epidermal protective zone in fetuses recapitulate the epidermal properties of water vertebrates.
  • (15) Recent advances in our knowledge of mechanisms of control of proliferation suggest that events occurring in adult animals may recapitulate portions of the developmental biology of the smooth muscle cell.
  • (16) The initiation of the Kaposi lesion thus may be an abnormal recapitulation of the coupling of venous and lymphatic systems which occurs during embryonic growth.
  • (17) In result of all findings will it be necessary, that the disease of diphtheria must be recapitulated.
  • (18) Phylogenetic data indicate that the complete psysiological and behavioral manifestations of sleep are unique to homeotherms; furthermore "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" in the parallel development of slow wave sleep and thermoregulation as exemplified in the opossum.
  • (19) Comparing the pattern of intraoperative ischemia with the chronic ambulatory preoperative pattern, we found that, under conditions of strict hemodynamic control, intraoperative ischemia apparently recapitulated the preoperative pattern, and that the stresses of anesthesia and surgery contributed less than previously thought.
  • (20) The recapitulation of that experience calls attention to the fragility of hospital planning, the dangers that underemployed physicians will overtreat patients, the advantages of using nurses as patient care managers in hospitals, and the desirability of not operating too close to the margin.