different between refresh vs caudle

English

Etymology

From Middle English refreshen, refreschen, refrisschen, from Old French refrescher (“to refresh”) (modern French rafraîchir), equivalent to re- +? fresh.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?f???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???f???/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

refresh (third-person singular simple present refreshes, present participle refreshing, simple past and past participle refreshed)

1. (transitive) To renew or revitalize.

   Sleep refreshes the body and the mind.

2. (intransitive) To become fresh again; to be revitalized.
3. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes.
4. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.
5. To perform the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
6. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To take refreshment; to eat or drink.
   • 1972, Vermont History (volume 40, page 268)

     We got within two miles of there, and stopped in the woods out of sight, where we refreshed with some brandy, and gave the two boys very large portions.

Translations

1. (transitive) To renew or revitalize.

   Sleep refreshes the body and the mind.

Noun

refresh (plural refreshes)

1. The periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
2. (computing) The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data.
3. The process of modernizing something.
   • 2013, Mark Phythian, Understanding the Intelligence Cycle (page 43)

     Experiences such as the Al Qaeda threat have provided a taste of how the landscape may have changed very fundamentally. Do these changes spell the end of the Cycle as a useful concept, or does it just need a refresh?

Translations

Anagrams

• fresher

English

Etymology

From Old Northern French caudel, from Medieval Latin caldellum, diminutive of Latin caldum, caldus (“warm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??d?l/
• Rhymes: -??d?l
• Homophones: coddle (in accents with the cot-caught merger), caudal

Noun

caudle (plural caudles)

1. A hot drink given to the sick, consisting of wine or ale, eggs, and bread.
   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 4:

     A venerable lady, known as Great-Aunt Grantley, who had money to bequeath to the Heir, and whom Adrian called The Eighteenth Century, occupied with Hippias the back ground of the house, and shared her caudles with him.

Synonyms

• posset

Verb

caudle (third-person singular simple present caudles, present participle caudling, simple past and past participle caudled)

1. (transitive) To make into caudle.
2. (transitive) To serve as a caudle to; to refresh.

Anagrams

• Claude, DeLuca, Deluca, cedula