Complicate vs Involute - What's the difference?
complicate | involute |
To fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult.
to expose involvement in a convoluted matter.
(obsolete) Intertwined.
Complex, complicated.
* 1745 , Edward Young, Night-Thoughts , I:
(formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.
(botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
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(biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils.
(biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
(biology) Rolled inward spirally.
To roll or curl inwards.
(geometry) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.
As verbs the difference between complicate and involute
is that complicate is to fold or twist together; to combine intricately; to make complex; to combine or associate so as to make intricate or difficult while involute is to roll or curl inwards.As adjectives the difference between complicate and involute
is that complicate is intertwined while involute is difficult to understand; complicated.As a noun involute is
a curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.complicate
English
Verb
(complicat)- Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your education.
- John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.
- The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.
Synonyms
* (expose involvement in a convoluted matter) intricate, entangle, embroil, mix up (in something), mireSee also
* complexAdjective
(en adjective)- How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate , how wonderful, is Man!
External links
* * ----involute
English
Adjective
(wikipedia involute) (en adjective)- Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute