What's the difference between remake and retake?

Remake


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make anew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Washington takes the role made famous by Edward Woodward in the 1980s US TV series that inspired the modern remake.
  • (2) Also likely to pick up a half-term audience, perhaps surprisingly, is the RoboCop remake, since its 12A certificate makes it available to younger teens or children of any age when accompanied by an adult.
  • (3) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
  • (4) All the statistics released about the Work Programme show execrable results, and yet we've heard nothing about penalties, or remaking the contracts, or rethinking the system.
  • (5) Commissioners insist on original drama dealing with issues in contemporary society: no remakes, no adaptations.
  • (6) State department staffers have complained privately that he should have consulted staff on how to remake the state department before backing job cuts of up to 2,300 .
  • (7) Because of its reliability, lack of contraindications, feasibility at the patient's bed, easy remaking, US examination is the first choice approach to the patient with blunt abdominal trauma.
  • (8) Columbia Pictures has bought the remake rights to the TV series, and to the original quartet of novels by David Peace on which it was based.
  • (9) Effects of neurotensin (NT) applied via the blood vessel on the responses to stimulation of Remak's nerve (RNS) were investigated in the chicken isolated and perfused rectums.
  • (10) Even the Teletubbies’ creator, Anne Wood – the Steven Spielberg of children’s TV – told the Radio Times she was “a bit sad” about the remake.
  • (11) The way they look, like extras from a remake of Men in Black filmed around FWD>> , has added to the growing excitement that they are going to deliver the most fantastical future-funk of the century.
  • (12) The arcane wiring when electricity came along, the subsequent clumsy rewiring; the cheap flat conversion in the 1960s; the constant saga of patch and mend from occupants who never have the money or vision to remake the whole thing from scratch - all this, and more, was paralleled on the WCML on an enormous scale.
  • (13) The company counts just over 21m homes in the United States as customers, and has become in its a way a commissioning broadcaster – buying up a Kevin Spacey remake of House of Cards and part-funding the return of the Jason Bateman cult comedy Arrested Development.
  • (14) When they remake Lord of The Rings maybe I'll play it.
  • (15) We are unbelievably sophisticated at that.” His most celebrated work, the remaking of Berlin’s bombed-out Neues Museum , which opened in 2009 after a decade of work he called “an unbelievably positive experience”, was based on a serious debate about meaning that he finds lacking in Britain.
  • (16) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.
  • (17) First, it can be made for a fraction of the cost of those purchased commercially and second, the plaster trap is easily cleaned by replacing the bucket without remaking the lid portion.
  • (18) Why swapping heroes for heroines is a Top Dollar idea Read more The potential gender-swap casting comes after Britain’s Andrea Riseborough was named earlier this month as a frontrunner to play the villain Top Dollar in a high-profile upcoming remake of cult comic book movie The Crow.
  • (19) When a fixed partial denture fails due to recurrent caries under the casting of the abutments, a remake process usually requires a great deal of cooperation, multiple lengthy appointments, and financial resources.
  • (20) 'The positive critical reception, word of mouth and the rise of Nordic noir fiction has seen a snowball effect on the popularity of subtitled drama' The Returned Were it not for the success of The Killing et al, The Returned might have found itself quietly picking up a small but loyal audience in a graveyard slot on E4, or the network might have preferred to wait for the forthcoming US remake.

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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