What's the difference between recapture and retake?

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.

Retake


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take or receive again.
  • (v. t.) To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No changes for either side, but Zinedine Zidane has been whispering into Cristiano Ronaldo's ear as he retakes the pitch.
  • (2) This year, that means anyone doing a retake in order to get the grades for law or accounting and finance degrees.
  • (3) A standardized questionnaire, with satisfactory retake item reliabilities and well established validities, was administered to a representative sample of female university students (N = 2366), drawn from Cairo and Ein-Shams Universities, both located in Greater Cairo.
  • (4) On top of that, a campaign to retake the north will pit largely Shia soldiers against Sunni fighters and, if air power and artillery are used in civilian areas, will risk further alienating the population.
  • (5) However, due to moving the larger studio audience (some of whom were on a gallery above the main set) around for different shots and retakes it took three times that.
  • (6) The official said they wanted to retake Mosul in the spring, before the summer heat and the holiday month of Ramadan kick in.
  • (7) Al-Maliki's appeal seems not only to have fallen on deaf ears but some tribal militias reportedly defected and fought alongside Isis, thus frustrating the government's efforts to retake Falluja.
  • (8) Criminals are released from prison and return to work every day, but the prospect of an unrepentant convicted rapist retaking his place at a League One football club has proved another matter.
  • (9) He added: "Retake the opportunity for individual tenants to choose to have their rent paid direct, then we will be with you all the way."
  • (10) There was no one in red and white prepared to take charge and deal with the visitors' inevitable surge, when it eventually came, by calming his team-mates down and retaking control of possession.
  • (11) Arab Iraq may still try to retake the province, but it is too focused on turning Baghdad and the Shia south into a fortress.
  • (12) More than a third of graduates from the training program, which until this year was available only to men, retake at lease one phase, the US army told AFP this week.
  • (13) The day after Zeidan's removal, the powerful Misrata militia, allied to congress, launched an offensive to retake the blockaded oil terminals, storming the base of an army special forces unit – the Zawiya Martyrs brigade – in the central city of Sirte, leaving five people dead.
  • (14) The military-drafted, vaguely worded constitution allows for the army chief to retake power in a national emergency.
  • (15) The long-promised battle for Tikrit and the province of Salahuddin, north of Baghdad, is set to be a dry run for another offensive, backed by the US-led international coalition and Shia militia, to retake Isis-controlled Mosul.
  • (16) They’re going to be retaking territory that’s part of the disputed territory.
  • (17) The Iraqi prime minister has vowed to retake every inch seized by the militants.
  • (18) Two earlier attempts to retake Delga failed, but in the early hours of Monday morning police launched a third and decisive assault, and have now re-entered the town, residents said by telephone.
  • (19) Hugely popular, evidence that the comprehensive ideal could succeed brilliantly, they offered a much wider curriculum than schools; students could be “academic” or given a second chance (the pass rate for “retakes” was almost double); all could escape the constraining regime of schools and be treated as young adults.
  • (20) She added: "That night, no one could tell me whether we could retake the Falklands.

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