What's the difference between retread and retreat?

Retread


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To tread again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each of them is an apocalyptic retread of Lord Of The Flies, but with all hot GQ-model Ralphs and no myopic Piggys.
  • (2) Good day: retread minister David Laws fondly recalled his first Lib Dem conference in 1994 when rampaging delegates called for legalised pot and an end to the monarchy.
  • (3) After 20 minutes of this well-designed and passably kinetic, albeit utterly humourless and derivative retread, I began to feel those two words like some kind of goading, pulsing taunt, as if they'd been implanted in my brain like the bespoke memories you can buy in the movie.
  • (4) "It was just a retread of the same old policies that have been sticking it to the middle-class for years," Obama said.
  • (5) The bulk were retreaded Old Labourites who, together with people who voted Green at the election, gave Corbyn his victory.
  • (6) Critics complain that the ranks of ex-Westminster retreads and former police authority chairmen that dominate the lists so far, despite the best efforts of Lord Prescott, are hardly sprinkled with stardust.
  • (7) Some are decent films, but are simply retreading narratives that we are fed again and again: our particular favourites are when White-People-Solve-Racism (The Help) or Arabs-Are-Up-To-No-Good (The Hurt Locker).
  • (8) He may even manage to hang on for a time by surrounding himself with a retinue of loyalists and retreads, among them the former Tory spin doctor turned Labour MP Shaun Woodward.
  • (9) Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed.
  • (10) The readability debate is in fact another retread of various arguments that beset what has become known as literary fiction – a woolly genre that encompasses books that don't sell very well, books that aren't "genre" fiction and anything with a taint of modernism or experiment.
  • (11) It is the Blairite retreads in his own party that censor his passion.
  • (12) Even the movie that was supposed to herald the return of the genre more than two decades ago, Clint Eastwood 's Oscar-winning Unforgiven , was a brilliant retread of familiar themes rather than a plunge into fresh waters.
  • (13) And younger MPs have indeed shown some interest in new ideas and imaginative policies that aren’t simply retreads of the previous government’s initiatives.
  • (14) albopictus, an investigation of tire retreading operations was initiated to determine the source and mode of introduction of Ae.
  • (15) However, it could not repeat the first film's positive critical reception, with reviewers complaining that the storyline amounted to little more than an unimaginative retread of part one.
  • (16) But he kept the boat afloat with a handful of retreads and wannabes, and most of all, well above average pitching .
  • (17) In an aircraft type retreading plant environmental samples taken at several departments showed mutagenic properties.
  • (18) Maybe this means a few more Christmas retreads, but who cares?

Retreat


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
  • (n.) The place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.
  • (n.) The retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.
  • (n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.
  • (n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.
  • (n.) A special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.
  • (n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.
  • (v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are saying they have paid with their blood and they do not want to retreat," said Saad el-Hosseini, a senior Brotherhood politician.
  • (2) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
  • (3) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
  • (4) Flank marks, attacks, bites, and retreats were scored over a 15 min test period during which steroid-injected animals were paired in a neutral arena with vehicle-injected conspecifics.
  • (5) Although she was tempted to retreat from life, she realised she would have to force herself to live in as an imaginative way as possible.
  • (6) It’s about state sovereignty.” The BLM’s retreat vindicated his stance, he said, tapping a copy of the US constitution which he keeps in a breast pocket.
  • (7) The retreat of government forces had left tens of thousands exposed to the savagery of Isis, especially those from the country's minorities, including Christians and members of the Yazidi sect.
  • (8) Rebels moved unchallenged along a road littered with evidence of the air campaign and the speed of their enemies' retreat.
  • (9) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
  • (10) A thin (20-gauge) cryoprobe can be used to retreat retinal breaks without disturbing a previous scleral buckle.
  • (11) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe I is for Italy He lived for many years in a mountain-top retreat in Ravello on the Amalfi coast until he became too infirm to cope with the hills.
  • (12) Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom.
  • (13) Kiev's forces entered the city on Saturday after pro-Russia rebels retreated overnight.
  • (14) He told the conference: "As you succeed in getting more and more business, the incumbent's tactic is to retreat slowly.
  • (15) "This financial mercantilism - which is foreign banks retreating to their home base - will, if we do nothing, lead to a new form of protectionism," he said.
  • (16) In a controlled clinical trial in Hong Kong, 575 Chinese adults with smear-positive isoniazid-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis, who had previously been treated with first-line chemotherapy, were allocated at random to regimens of rifampicin plus ethambutol daily (ER7), twice-weekly (ER2), once-weekly (ER1), or daily for 2 months and then once-weekly (ER7ER1), or to a standard retreatment regimen of daily ethionamide plus pyrazinamide plus cycloserine (EtZC).
  • (17) The maintenance of the antiemetic efficacy of ondansetron was further studied in 28 patients (13 A, 15 B) in respectively 36 and 48 retreatment courses.
  • (18) They advised people living near the beach to retreat upstairs and hunker down in rooms away from the sea.
  • (19) But he has since retreated from that view and told his confirmation hearing that the Senate's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation programme had disturbed him.
  • (20) Retreatment with pamidronate again resulted in normocalcaemia.

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