Devolve vs Involute - What's the difference?
devolve | involute |
(obsolete) To roll (something) down; to unroll.
* 1744 , (Mark Akenside), The Pleasures of the Imagination , II:
* 1830 , , Character :
To be inherited by someone else; to pass down (upon) the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.
* 1932 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society 2010, p. 4:
To delegate (a responsibility, duty etc.) (on) or (upon) someone.
* 1704 , (Joseph Addison), Remarks on Several Parts of Italy :
* 1756 , (Edmund Burke), A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful :
To fall as a duty or responsibility (on) or (upon) someone.
* , Episode 16:
To degenerate; to break down.
(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 devolve and involute
is that devolve is while involute is to roll or curl inwards.As an adjective involute is
(formal) difficult to understand; complicated.As a noun involute is
(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.devolve
English
Verb
(en-verb)- every headlong stream / Devolves its winding waters to the main.
- He spake of virtue […] And with […] a lack-lustre dead-blue eye, Devolved his rounded periods.
- an accident […] rendered him permanently lame, and therefore unfitted him, in the opinion of his parents, to inherit his father's many titles, which, it was then arranged, should devolve upon his younger brother.
- They devolved their whole authority into the hands of the council of sixty.
- An artful man became popular, the people had power in their hands, and they devolved a considerable share of their power upon their favourite […].
- For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.
- A discussion about politics may devolve into a shouting match.
Anagrams
* ----involute
English
Adjective
(wikipedia involute) (en adjective)- Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute