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What is the difference between contemplate and ruminate?

contemplate | ruminate |

Ruminate is a synonym of contemplate.



As verbs the difference between contemplate and ruminate

is that contemplate is to look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider while ruminate is to chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.

As an adjective ruminate is

having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

contemplate

English

Verb

(contemplat)
  • To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
  • * Milton
    • To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
  • * Byron
    • We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .
  • To consider as a possibility.
  • * A. Hamilton
    • There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
  • * Kent
    • If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
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    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * contemplative * contemplation * contemplatively

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    ruminate

    English

    Verb

    (ruminat)
  • To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
    • A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
  • To meditate or reflect.
    • I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
  • To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
  • * Shakespeare
    • What I know / Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.
  • * Dryden
    • Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.

    Synonyms

    * See also * Or

    Related terms

    * rumen * ruminant * rumination

    Derived terms

    * ruminator

    See also

    * chew the cud

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
    • a ruminate endosperm

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