Attempt vs Iterate - What's the difference?
attempt | iterate |
To try.
* Longfellow
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, title= (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
* Thackeray
(archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
* Motley
The action of trying at something.
* We made an attempt to cross the stream, but didn't manage.
* This poem is much better than the feeble attempt of mine.
* It was worth the attempt .
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An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.
* 1584' ''No man can charge us of any '''attempt against the realm. (Allen's Defence Of English Catholics, cited after Edinburgh review 1883, p. 378)
(computing, mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set
(computing, mathematics) to perform or repeat an action on the results of each such prior action
(archaic) To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.
* Milton
(obsolete) Said or done again; repeated.
In obsolete terms the difference between attempt and iterate
is that attempt is to try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt while iterate is said or done again; repeated.In archaic terms the difference between attempt and iterate
is that attempt is to attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force while iterate is to utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat.As verbs the difference between attempt and iterate
is that attempt is to try while iterate is to perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.As nouns the difference between attempt and iterate
is that attempt is the action of trying at something while iterate is a function that iterates.As an adjective iterate is
said or done again; repeated.attempt
English
Verb
(en verb)- I attempted to sing, but my throat was too hoarse.
- to attempt an escape from prison
- Something attempted , something done, / Has earned a night's repose.
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- It made the laughter of an afternoon / That Vivien should attempt the blameless king.
- one who attempts the virtue of a woman
- Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: / Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute.
- to attempt the enemy's camp
- without attempting his adversary's life
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* take a stab at, take a run atNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea}}
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "attempt": first, failed, desperate, last, half-hearted, unsuccessful, serious, successful, feeble, new, honest, vain, sincere, ambitious, earnest, clumsy, direct, hard, brilliant, official, useless, clever, sophisticated, amateurish.Synonyms
* effort * tryStatistics
*External links
* * * English control verbsiterate
English
Verb
(iterat)- The max() function iterates through the data to find the highest value.
- In mathematics, an iterated function is a function which is composed with itself, possibly ad infinitum, in a process called iteration.
- to iterate advice
- Nor Eve to iterate / Her former trespass feared.
Derived terms
* reiterate * iterative * iteratorAdjective
(-)- (Bishop Gardiner)
