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Dawdle vs Evaluate - What's the difference?

dawdle | evaluate |

In lang=en terms the difference between dawdle and evaluate

is that dawdle is to move or walk lackadaisically while evaluate is to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.

As verbs the difference between dawdle and evaluate

is that dawdle is to spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time while evaluate is to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.

As a noun dawdle

is a dawdler.

dawdle

English

Verb

(dawdl)
  • To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Neil Johnston , title=Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However all Hennessey's good work went to waste on 52 minutes when he dawdled on the ball.}}
  • * Johnson
  • Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me.
  • To spend (time) without haste or purpose.
  • to dawdle away the whole morning
  • To move or walk lackadaisically.
  • If you dawdle on your daily walk, you won't get as much exercise.
  • * Thackeray
  • We dawdle up and down Pall Mall.

    See also

    * dally, dander, dandle, diddle, loaf, piddle, wander, doodle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dawdler.
  • evaluate

    English

    Verb

    (evaluat)
  • to draw conclusions from examining; to assess
  • It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
  • (mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression)
  • Evaluate this polynomial.
  • To return or have a specific value.
  • * 2006 , Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications , CRC Press (ISBN 9780824726690), page 201
  • Since element (15.1) evaluates' to an element of the center in any alternative algebra, (15.1) has to ' evaluate to a scalar multiple of the identity element of the Cayley-Dickson algebra.
  • * 2007 , James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9780387708720), page 165
  • In one type of such an integral, the integrand is only the probability density function, and the integral evaluates to a probability, which of course is a scalar.

    Derived terms

    * evaluator * evaluatee