What's the difference between rephrase and restate?

Rephrase


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • This article was amended on 14 October 2012 to rephrase a reference to the abducted child Madeleine McCann being "regularly photographed" during the period in question.
  • (2) Mothers responded by producing fewer rephrased questions, fewer questions providing hints and answers, fewer questions functioning as repetitions and expansions, and more directly repeated questions when the older sibling was present.
  • (3) Results indicate that teachers most often ask questions that require student to provide more information; yet these questions do not affect revision as much as questions which require students to rephrase specific language.
  • (4) Barker, too, was rephrasing his enthusiasm: "Osborne was speaking to an audience beyond the conference hall, beyond the green mafia.
  • (5) And his 47% “gaffe” is no longer something to let slip out via a secret video, but something for candidates like Scott Walker to rephrase and use as a stump speech.
  • (6) But step outside that and face the world, come on !” I rephrase my earlier question: is he afraid of making enemies in public life and politics?
  • (7) Perhaps, I thought, the correct response would have been to send Carter-Silk an email pointing out that if he suspected the message he was about to send was “horribly politically incorrect”, then he should probably rephrase it.
  • (8) But if you rephrase the data, this means on average you will have an extra 4.1 days of life.” He warns that the risks are based on old data when heart attacks were more common – one study found that risk calculators overestimated the risk by four or five times.
  • (9) Each principle was rephrased as an attitude or value associated with Level II fieldwork, matched with a Likert-type 5-point interval scale, and distributed to a convenience sample of 81 fieldwork supervisors.
  • (10) With the rankings tallied, the $5,000 prize goes to American chatbot Chip Vivant, the same bot that told one judge, "Please rephrase as a proper question, instead of 'Jim likes P'".
  • (11) In adapting the English version of the Arabic draft text, Said used his influence to rephrase the Arabic; although his modifications were insufficient to satisfy the Reagan administration, which ended by dictating the crucial words that appeared in Arafat's speech to a special session of the UN general assembly (convened in Geneva because the US state department refused to grant Arafat a visa to attend the UN in New York), there can be little doubt that Said's tireless representations in the American media, explaining that the declaration amounted to a "historic compromise" on the part of the Palestinians towards the Jewish state, opened the way for the US-PLO dialogue that would lead to the Madrid conference and the Oslo peace process.
  • (12) Many of my families have learning disabilities so I often have to rephrase and breakdown what is being said so they can understand; the legal terms being used can be very confusing.
  • (13) Described as the "brains behind the FSA" in an annual list of the 100 most powerful financiers in the UK, Sants often debates or rephrases questions before answering them.
  • (14) I rephrase the question, attempting to elicit a more personal response.
  • (15) Perhaps it is time to rephrase the challenge, says Brin.
  • (16) Perhaps you'd like to rephrase your question in a non-value-laden way."
  • (17) Items were rephrased to ensure understanding, although a small degree of standardization may have been lost in this process.
  • (18) In relation to this positive finding, the equivocality among some of the previous studies on the detection of BI components in human scalp BAEPs is tentatively rephrased in terms mainly of a low signal-to-noise ratio and of functional peculiarities introduced by the respective stimulation protocols.
  • (19) When the reporter rephrased the question he said “without wanting to get into an argument with the media what you have just said is very different from the accusation and statement you earlier made, we need to have decent standards in this country, including decent standards from the media”.
  • (20) They’re the same bold alternatives you’ve seen rephrased for 40 years, proffered as if untested on 300,000,000 guinea pigs already.

Restate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To state anew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He restated his belief that it was in the national interest to remain in the EU, and said he was "confident" he could secure a successful renegotiation of Britain's relationship that could be put to the public.
  • (2) Hunt’s comments were, in many senses, a restatement of traditional, economically liberal ideas on relationships between doing wage work and poverty relief, mirroring, for example, arguments of the 1834 poor law commissioners, which suggested wage supplements diminished the skills, honesty and diligence of the labourer, and the more recent claim of Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice that the earned pound was “superior” to that received in benefits.
  • (3) Through recent literature the authors make a restatement of the epidemiology, biology and treatment of this disease.
  • (4) The ITV executive chairman, Michael Grade, said: "Ofcom's announcement today is an appropriate moment to restate ITV's unreserved apology to the public for breaches that took place between 2003 and January 2007.
  • (5) The Kerry speech at the state department at 11am (4pm GMT) is expected to restate the Obama administration’s continued faith in a two-state solution to the chronic impasse.
  • (6) The questions are restated and generalized to the whys, and hows, and the whens to incorporate theoretical nursing rather than nursing theory in nursing education.
  • (7) The document restates the now familiar lines from EU leaders’ negotiating guidelines, notably stressing that Brussels wants an “orderly withdrawal” – meaning divorce before trade talks.
  • (8) David Cameron presses Malaysian PM on corruption claims Read more 1MDB released a statement on Tuesday restating its innocence.
  • (9) The 26 miles of tunnel being dug under the heart of the capital – picking a careful way among ancient remains, beneath prime property and past the oldest subterranean railway in the world – is restating Britain's traditional claim to be a world leader in the field.
  • (10) Developing countries would benefit more from market access to richer countries, which would increase exports and stimulate jobs, investment and innovation, than from a restatement of pledges on aid.
  • (11) I believe that Kevin Rudd has made the right decision in the party’s interest [by] restating his strong view saying he would only be a candidate for the Labor party’s leadership not through a divisive ballot where he challenged the prime minister, but only by if there was an overwhelming view of the party that he should be drafted to that position.
  • (12) John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has simply restated what has been understood for a long time,” he said.
  • (13) The president also restated the US position on the Iran nuclear programme: that there was still time for diplomacy, but not "unlimited time".
  • (14) Hopefully this is the start of a powerful movement that will deliver rent control and a public policy to restate social housing.” Organisers hope that the March for Homes, the first of its type to unify campaigners, tenants and trade unionists on the inequality caused by housing policies, will lead to a wholesale rethink.
  • (15) Having failed to persuade the ECHR judges to reverse their decision, the government published a draft bill last year setting out three political options: a ban for prisoners sentenced to four years or more, a ban for prisoners sentenced to more than six months, and a restatement of the existing ban – in effect defying Strasbourg.
  • (16) The press officer of the Hellenic police restated the ministry's commitment to establishing a special response team to combat racist violence.
  • (17) Zaidi, who seemed nervous throughout, began to restate his defence from the first session of the trial, saying that he had not "intended to kill Bush or humiliate him".
  • (18) It is suggested that the insights of object relations theory can be restated in these terms.
  • (19) Nevertheless, the Anglican summit restated its traditional stance and imposed sanctions on the liberal US Episcopal church for allowing same-sex marriage.
  • (20) Tim Montgomerie, editor of the ConservativeHome website, said Hunt was merely restating views that he had held for years.