Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To use again.
- n. Repeated use; use a second time.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of salvaging or in some manner returning a discarded item into something usable.
- n. computing code re-use indicates splitting program code into modules or classes so it can be re-used by other programs. data re-use refers to legal rights to re-use for publication, data that one has downloaded or licensed from a third party.
- v. To use something that is considered past its usefulness, again (usually for something else).
WordNet 3.0
- v. use again after processing
Examples
“Copying source code in whole or in part falls under the term reuse; modifying source code makes it a derivative work.”
“We have to look for someone who can formulate strategic goals -- and I'm going to have to use the term reuse -- to reuse what is there now, and federate what is there now, and federate with as light a touch as possible.”
“Google wasn't the only violator the FSC found in its look at what it describes as the reuse-which could mean linking to a news article and using some of the same words in a headline and lede paragraph-during the 30-day period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15.”
“The most powerful form of reuse is full reuse – i.e. not just code and design, but all aspects of process.”
“By default, as the law stands now, when you use any such service you're agreeing not to publish a derivative work based on it without permission, unless your reuse is sufficiently transformative.”
“In the waste hierarchy (look it up in Wikipedia), reuse is superior to recycling.”
There’s Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“Building reuse is often overshadowed by the long green shadow of new high performance architecture.”
“Consuming new products IS NOT GREEN, especially when reuse is an option.”
“Of course the cups could be reused, however reuse is currently not a realistic option since they are sold in environments where disposable products are used (baseball stadium).”
“CC facilitated the distribution and reuse from a copyright management point of view for sure, but it was Doctorow's charisma that propelled it forward.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘reuse’.
-
EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
-
BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
-
CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
-
INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
-
MUSIC - jazz
funky, pedal, bebop, rap, mix, sub, mid, rag, ECM, bpm, bop, Afro and 437 more...
-
webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
more:
ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
Culture Jamming
appropriate, subvertise, adbust, detournement, carnivalesque, remix, mashup, critical, protest, subvertisement, adbusting, disrupt and 47 more...
-
Earth-Friendly Organic Produce
An Ecosystem of earth/life-related words.
blueskycloudform, sojourn, reuse, reduce, compostable, habitat, ecology, bionomics, Eco-Art, sustainability, forest garden, biosystems and 47 more...
-
Programming
class, function, method, instance, value, variable, boolean, if, else, while, for, elseif and 95 more...
-
Cloroxyopia
For nonporous surfaces.
trademark, registered, comments, questions, trash, discard, available, recycling, empty, reuse, flush, disposal and 76 more...
-
MikeD's list
Michael Dungan’s work is dedicated to discovering new abundance in our community by reclassifying waste as an asset. Through his consultancy APISync, LLC, the community project Zero...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for reuse.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.