What's the difference between rephrase and reword?

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.

Reword


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To repeat in the same words; to reecho.
  • (v. t.) To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, a new dosage concepts has been introduced on the basis of the effective dose on the lines of the recommendations by the IRCP; as a result, the definitions of radiation protection areas and of dosage limit values had to be revised and reworded.
  • (2) There were signs on Wednesday night that the Scottish government was shifting ground by agreeing to allow the commission to independently try out the question on voters, suggesting it could be reworded to make it more neutral.
  • (3) Support was provided for rewording burnout questions from the human services scales for private sector research.
  • (4) This motto--which is merely a rewording of the command to "love thy neighbor as thyself"--is compatible with man's natural structure, and although it is based on altruistic egoism, it could hardly be attacked as unethical.
  • (5) The remaining 36 young offenders were given at retest a version of the SADD reworded to eradicate difficult words and ambiguous items.
  • (6) Based upon several TTS experiments showing that TTS reaches an asymptote after about 8 h of exposure, the third CHABA postulate can be reworded to state the hypothesis that ATS produced by sound of fixed level and spectrum represents an upper bound on PTS produced by that sound regardless of the exposure duration or the number of times exposed.
  • (7) In 1990, the statement was superseded by a second "Statement on Abortion," which essentially reworded the 1971 statement with no substantive change.
  • (8) The original questionnaire by Schwenk et al was administered to one half of the sample of patients, while the other half completed a reworded questionnaire asking what they "want" in the area of psychosocial help, as opposed to what they think their family physician "would" do (the original wording).
  • (9) But such a rule puts the scientists in a difficult position, and Santer had the unenviable job of rewording his chapter to reflect the wording of the political summary.
  • (10) According to this rule, Psalms (120:5), Isaiah (6:5), Jeremiah (4:31), and Ophelia should have cried out, "Woe is I," and the cartoon possum Pogo should have reworded his famous declaration as "We have met the enemy, and he is we."
  • (11) • This article was amended on 1 January 2013, rewording a previously ambiguous sentence that could have been taken to imply that rickets and scurvy were communicable diseases.
  • (12) This sentence has now been reworded to reflect the author's original intent.
  • (13) Halpern’s team reworded the email sent to all candidates that congratulated them on passing the previous stage to include a request for them to “take some time to think about why you want to be a police constable” before moving on to the next test.
  • (14) Most of the changes applied by the nudge unit are tiny: a text message, rewording a letter, a personalised email.
  • (15) They tested some of the same questions throughout, which is important because merely rewording a question – even when describing the same policy – can cause major differences in results.
  • (16) But, to reword the question, would such a legislation automatically result in therapeutic benefits?
  • (17) It is suggested that a clearer definition of committal criteria and a rewording of the medical certificate may aid physicians in completing commitment documentation.
  • (18) Thus, the SADD is shown to be reliable over time and the reworded SADD is a satisfactory alternative to the original SADD with this population.
  • (19) It also reworded its position on the plans, saying it would consult on the "best" counselling options for women but that the outcome was not a foregone conclusion.
  • (20) But a group of up to 30 Conservative MPs are threatening to back a reworded amendment to the immigration bill to allow more to reach the UK in another vote next Monday.