What's the difference between rehash and rework?

Rehash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.
  • (n.) Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Version came out, featuring covers sung by Winehouse, Allen et al, it was again assumed by some that Ronson had simply flicked through his diamanté-encrusted contacts book and got his friends to rehash a few old songs written by other people.
  • (2) But it is not, repeat not, a simple rehashing of the film, love the original though they all do.
  • (3) 9.09am BST Unfortunately we have to rehash some things from Friday, says Nel.
  • (4) In the first comments from Epstein’s representatives since the Guardian revealed on Friday that the prince had been named in a Florida court motion, an attorney for the disgraced financier said: “These are stale, rehashed allegations that lawyers are now attempting to repackage and spice up by adding the names of prominent people.” Virginia Roberts, who says she was 17 when she first met the Duke of York in London, claims she was forced to have sexual contact with him by Epstein, in London, New York and on his private island in the Caribbean during an “orgy”.
  • (5) "There are just too many people rehashing the politics of the 1980s.
  • (6) Indeed, the larger context for this rehashed scandal is not a pattern of abuse or the ongoing dysfunctions of a celebrated family but rather the demands of a publicity rollout.
  • (7) JJ Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness opens this week and it's a big, loud science fiction movie, cobbled together from the scripts of two Kirk-era movies, with action scenes rehashed from Abrams' last Trek outing.
  • (8) Africa Stop Ebola was recorded before the release of Sir Bob’s third rehash of the charity single , and includes well-known African musicians such as Tiken Jah Fakoly from the Ivory Coast and Malian artists Amadou and Mariam, Salif Keita and Oumou Sangare.
  • (9) It appears, on first reading, to be merely a rehash of the police’s initial version of events.
  • (10) Hearing Reinsdorf’s desire to be tougher on the union was a rehash of an ugly, not too distant past – a bit like hearing that polio was popping up in the Midwest.
  • (11) While his rivals for the Republican nomination – frontrunner Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich , Rick Perry and Rick Santorum – repetitively recite rehashed speeches full of TV-friendly soundbites, Paul takes his fans on an intellectual rollercoaster ride that is never predictable.
  • (12) I support the freedom to make jokes, even if they're bad, and even if they're the most hackneyed rehash of all your other bad jokes – even if you've basically only got one joke.
  • (13) Cheney said Saddam Hussein had "known ties" to terrorists, an apparent rehashing of the widely discredited Bush administration effort to link the Iraqi dictator to the September 11 2001 hijackers.
  • (14) "I'd rather live my life than attempt to rehash it," he later said.
  • (15) The timing of these rehashed allegations is highly suspicious, coinciding with the recent WikiLeaks revelations and reinvigorated by a rightwing Swedish politician.
  • (16) A Conservative party spokesperson said: "Rehashing a baseless six-month-old story is a sign of utter desperation by Labour.
  • (17) The former secretary of state vehemently pushed back against Trump on Thursday, saying his plan is a rehashed playbook of trickle-down economics, and will only benefit millionaires and billionaires.
  • (18) It’s not new people we’re getting to know, but more like rehashing a bunch of old drama from a bunch of outlandish characters.” This isn’t Fox’s fault, exactly, but it is the way a debate between not two or three but ten different candidates had to play out.
  • (19) Instead, the Tories have merely rehashed press releases on procurement they announced back in October.
  • (20) He said at the time: "I'd rather live my life than attempt to rehash it.

Rework


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
  • (2) I'm sure Evan wouldn't mind me saying that he makes no secret of an occasional discomfort about conventional chord-change playing in jazz, and tends to sit out occasions where it's required, as he did last year in London on a gig in which the pianist Django Bates was reworking Charlie Parker tunes.
  • (3) Previously a cover-up and reworking of a tattoo beneath, when she was performing across the UK with Girls Aloud in February , you could see the bold work in progress poking above her backless stage costumes.
  • (4) And then there's a long, long process where you can keep refining and reworking.
  • (5) If the large-scale, comprehensive abstracting and indexing services were based on enumerative classifications with assignment of documents to logical hierarchical categories at the time of initial indexing, then many of the specialized information centers (50) and the 1300 abstracting and indexing services (3) would be unnecessary, and much of the reindexing and reprocessing of documents, the repackaging and reworking of abstracts and index data, and the resulting overlap and duplication characteristic of current information processing could be terminated.
  • (6) This paper focuses on the choice of a sexual partner and pregnancy issues as symptoms of reworking established conflicts around self-valuation and abandonment by sibling and grieving parents.
  • (7) Armitage's stage version, commissioned for the in-the-round Royal Exchange in Manchester, a space that can encompass both the intimate and the epic, reworks The Iliad , adding an ending Homer never wrote.
  • (8) A radical reworking of Douglas Sirk with Julianne Moore's 1950s housewife married to repressed homosexual Dennis Quaid, the film earned Haynes an Oscar nomination and confirmed him as a major talent, and one who'd outgrown the role of poster boy for New Queer Cinema.
  • (9) The proposed rework was a “seriously retrograde step” – “a colossal mistake, and a dangerous one.” The opposition leader validated arguments Jewish groups, including the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, have raised this past week against the proposed RDA changes.
  • (10) Harry Moran's Pizzabot, a reworking of Space Invaders, also drove down a release from the Call of Duty series when it debuted on the chart, leading to the Irish boy being dubbed the youngest successful app developer in the world.
  • (11) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends (£2.99) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends is a reworking of Eric Carle’s classic book and illustrations, in the form of a digital “pop-up app” modelled after printed pop-up books.
  • (12) This "first-cut" ration can then be reworked in the spreadsheet mode to meet the needs of the individual farm based on other biologic and management considerations.
  • (13) Today, a fully restored, boldly extended and slightly reworked St Pancras proves that we can have our boiled beef and our oil-drizzled fettuccine and eat it.
  • (14) Other contributors include Bat For Lashes, Tove Lo and Chvrches, while Kanye “reworks” Flicker.
  • (15) He thinks it's complicated – though in the case of Shylock , his reworking of the Merchant of Venice , he is prepared to be specific.
  • (16) In optimal circumstances, the identifications out of which the child's character is built become reworked and modified so that it becomes increasingly unique and independent of its sources in others.
  • (17) It also recommended a reworking of proportionality tests.
  • (18) Parliament rises on Thursday, with only two further sitting weeks scheduled before the summer break, providing limited time for the multinational bill to be reworked before 1 January.
  • (19) We also seem to be heading increasingly towards a directors’ theatre, where the ability to rework standard classics takes precedence over new writing: look at the fervid excitement created by current productions of The Crucible and A Streetcar Named Desire .
  • (20) There was fine work from the Dardenne brothers – their Le Gamin au Vélo was a modern reworking of Oliver Twist and Bicycle Thieves .

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