What's the difference between recapture and reprise?

Recapture


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.
  • (n.) That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
  • (v. t.) To capture again; to retake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Europe such escapees often find themselves recaptured by boundary adjustments.
  • (2) Two of 15 recaptured P. leucopus had greater than or equal to 4-fold changes in antibody titer.
  • (3) All subsequent recaptures were made in the same situation in which the mosquitoes were marked.
  • (4) The truce was short-lived, and by the following February, hundreds of Taliban fighters had recaptured the area, prompting the British, aided by the US Army's 82nd airborne division, to conduct a massive operation in late 2007 to wrest back control of the district centre.
  • (5) However, in later experiments, mosquitoes recaptured seeking hosts at 48 h after release were in Sella's and Christophers' stages I and II, but parity rates had nearly doubled, indicating that eggs may have developed in less than 48 h and that mosquitoes returned to refeed immediately following oviposition.
  • (6) Specific target-organ (quadratus labii superioris muscle) activity can be recaptured with a smaller number (12.5%) of regenerating myelinated axons from the buccal division of the facial nerve during the fifth week of entubation.
  • (7) The purpose of the escalation will be to support the Iraqi-led recapture of Mosul, although senior US officials, including the head of military intelligence, have doubted the Iraqi’s ability to take the city in 2016.
  • (8) This paper develops capture-recapture methods applicable to programs as a whole.
  • (9) Although the mark-recapture and blood meal data indicated behavioral heterogeneity between buffalo and human biters, restriction endonuclease fragment length polymorphism analysis revealed no differences in repeat sequence profiles.
  • (10) Michu scored 22 goals in all competitions during his first season at Swansea but struggled to recapture that impressive form last term as injuries took their toll.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A general view taken on Sunday shows part of the ancient city of Palmyra, after government troops recaptured the Unesco world heritage site.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Displaced Iraqis begin returning to their home town of Tikrit, northern Iraq, which was recaptured from Isis in April.
  • (13) We have estimated, in addition, the effective population size for each generation for both populations with results from mark-recapture and other field data.
  • (14) The chipmunks were trapped and periodically recaptured in two study areas where 59 chipmunks became infected and developed neutralizing antibody during the summer cycle of virus transmission.
  • (15) Of 8,417 birds sampled, 1,227 (14.6%) were recaptured one or more times (mean 2.7 times).
  • (16) Bullivant disappeared at the same time as two others under control orders, neither of whom were recaptured.
  • (17) Because of the advantages of capture-recapture methods-estimation of level of completeness, possible comparability of estimates across different registries, and versatility to consider other determinants of cancer registration-a plea for greater use of these methods in cancer registration is made.
  • (18) It is concluded that during preganglionic nerve stimulation approximately 50-60% of endogenously produced choline is recaptured for ACh synthesis; thus, during activity preganglionic nerve terminals appear selectively to accumulate choline.4.
  • (19) No differences were found in the control group of animals, which supports the suggestion that the vesicles could arise from a membrane recapture process.
  • (20) An activity-dependent uptake mechanism exists to recapture the histamine for reuse at this continuously active synapse.

Reprise


Definition:

  • (n.) A taking by way of retaliation.
  • (n.) Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like.
  • (n.) A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
  • (v. t.) To take again; to retake.
  • (v. t.) To recompense; to pay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
  • (2) It's a free-for-all," one local Christian activist, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, said before police re-entered the town.
  • (3) The effects of such actions – presidential demonizing, threats of legal reprisal – are pernicious.
  • (4) Twitchfilm reported yesterday that Ford was in early talks to reprise his role as the future cop, who is tasked with hunting down a gang of rogue bioengineered humanoids, called "replicants", in Scott's earlier film, itself based on the Philip K Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • (5) For the record Rock said after the show that he would reprise his role, adding: "Who knows if they would want me again."
  • (6) Unicef also called for the immediate release of children associated with armed forces and groups, and their protection from reprisals.
  • (7) Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the vast, arid north say they are caught between the militants and brutal army reprisals.
  • (8) The reprisals against human rights defenders, political activists and journalists I’ve described are not nearly a complete list.
  • (9) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
  • (10) Seoul and its allies now face the dilemma of how to respond, as the South Korean public becomes increasingly restive over what many see as the North's immunity from reprisals.
  • (11) Part of this financing has been replaced by alternative credit providers, which are creating new regulatory challenges.” Reprising recent warnings about widening income inequality in many rich countries, the OECD notes a relatively poor performance in the UK: Income inequality is high.
  • (12) Cameron is not expected to hold a formal bilateral meeting with the US president, who is leading the international drive for armed reprisals for Assad's apparent chemical weapons attacks.
  • (13) Around 1,600 French soldiers have been deployed in the CAR to halt violent reprisals between religious factions that have left at least 465 people dead since last Thursday, according to the Red Cross.
  • (14) It was only in the late 1990s that German Sr reprised work on the film, and continued to do so until the end of his life.
  • (15) Indeed he is, with extra brownie points for brown-nosing Hanks with a love-in sketch reprising the great man’s career .
  • (16) But he is considered an even greater liability as the country has descended into chaos amid reprisal attacks from mainly Christian militias against the largely Muslim rebel group.
  • (17) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
  • (18) Let’s get this one made and that will reinvigorate the franchise and then we’ll go on to maybe doing a more conventional third sequel as we were planning and another idea I have for it.” Aykroyd, who co-wrote the first two Ghostbusters movies and starred as eccentric parapsychologist Ray Stantz, spent several years trying to convince original co-star Bill Murray to reprise his role as Peter Venkman in a followup to 1984’s Ghostbusters and 1989 sequel Ghostbusters 2.
  • (19) The message was a reprise of the commitment to engagement approach he signalled in his inaugural address and was made in an emollient tone that contrasted sharply with that used by George Bush, who included the Islamic Republic in his "axis of evil".
  • (20) Many of these killings appear to be reprisals following attacks.

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