Differentiated vs Differentiates - What's the difference?
differentiated | differentiates |
(differentiate)
(biology, of a cell or tissue) That has taken on a specialized form and function
(differentiate)
To show, or be the distinction between two things.
* Earle
* {{quote-book, year=1933
, passage=The mass of the rich and poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
, author=George Orwell, title=Down and Out in Paris and London, chapter=Ch. XXII, page=120, publisher=Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition}}
To perceive the difference between things; to discriminate.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1964
, passage=he refused to instruct that actual intent to harm or recklessness had to be found before punitive damages could be awarded, or that a verdict for respondent should differentiate between compensatory and punitive damages.}}
(intransitive) To modify, or be modified.
(mathematics) To calculate the derivative of a function.
(mathematics) To calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables.
(biology) To produce distinct organs or to achieve specific functions by a process of development called differentiation.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1930, author=Robert Evans Snodgrass
, passage=In Chapter IV we learned that every animal consists of a body, or soma, formed of cells that are differentiated from the germ cells usually at an early stage of development.}}
As verbs the difference between differentiated and differentiates
is that differentiated is (differentiate) while differentiates is .As an adjective differentiated
is (biology|of a cell or tissue) that has taken on a specialized form and function.differentiated
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* undifferentiateddifferentiates
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(head)differentiate
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(differentiat)- The word "then" was differentiated into the two forms "then" and "than".
