different between reclock vs recloak

English

Etymology

re- +? clock

Verb

reclock (third-person singular simple present reclocks, present participle reclocking, simple past and past participle reclocked)

1. (transitive, computing) To modify the clock speed of.
   • 1999, PC Mag (volume 18, number 6, 23 March 1999, page 87)

     And what's the big deal if people reclock their chips? “It gives us a bad reputation when a reclocked system fails!” says Intel.

Hyponyms

• downclock
• upclock

Anagrams

• clocker, cockler

English

Etymology

re- +? cloak

Verb

recloak (third-person singular simple present recloaks, present participle recloaking, simple past and past participle recloaked)

1. (transitive, chiefly figuratively) To cloak again or anew.
   • 1999, Jean Markale, The Grail: The Celtic Origins of the Sacred Icon (page 5)

     That is why it is necessary to analyze the story by Chretien de Troyes, before examining the numerous aspects that have recloaked the legend.

   • 2001, Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco, Bodies out of bounds: fatness and transgression (page 270)

     Dierlam thus simultaneously recloaks herself as Helen Melon and reminds us that the figure before us does not exist solely as a character or performance.

Anagrams

• earlock