different between repaint vs repoint

English

Etymology

re- +? paint (“verb”)

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: r?-p?nt?, IPA^(key): /?i??pe?nt/
• (noun) enPR: r??p?nt, IPA^(key): /??i?pe?nt/
• Rhymes: -e?nt

Verb

repaint (third-person singular simple present repaints, present participle repainting, simple past and past participle repainted)

1. To paint anew or again, especially if recently painted.

   to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture

2. (computing) To draw or render again on the display.
   • 2010, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2010 and the .NET 4 Platform (page 1551)

     To force a window to repaint itself programmatically, you call the inherited Invalidate() method […]

Translations

Noun

repaint (plural repaints)

1. The act or process of painting something again, especially if recently painted.
2. (computing) The act of drawing or rendering again on the display.
   • 2005, Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths, Programming Windows Presentation Foundation

     WPF will call your OnRender function when it needs to know what content your visual displays, but the way graphics acceleration works in WPF means that this happens far less often than the equivalent repaints in Win32.

Anagrams

• Painter, Parenti, apterin, painter, pertain, pine tar, terapin

English

Etymology

re- +? point

Verb

repoint (third-person singular simple present repoints, present participle repointing, simple past and past participle repointed)

1. (masonry) To replace or repair the pointing in brickwork.

Anagrams

• Petrino, Petroni, Pointer, interop, pointer, protein, pterion, tropein, tropine