Elaborate vs Sublimate - What's the difference?
elaborate | sublimate |
Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
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Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
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*:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
(used with'' on ''when used with an object ) To give further detail or explanation (about).
(ambitransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state.
To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.
(psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity.
(archaic) To raise to a place of honor; to refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
* Dr. H. More
As verbs the difference between elaborate and sublimate
is that elaborate is (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) to give further detail or explanation (about) while sublimate is (ambitransitive|physics) to change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state.As an adjective elaborate
is highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.As a noun sublimate is
(chemistry) a product obtained by sublimation.elaborate
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Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(elaborat)- What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate ?
- Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?
sublimate
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Verb
(sublimat)- The precepts of Christianity are so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.