Elevate vs Optimize - What's the difference?
elevate | optimize |
To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
(dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
(originally) To act optimistically or as an optimist.
To make (something) optimal.
To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program.
To become optimal.
In lang=en terms the difference between elevate and optimize
is that elevate is to increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound while optimize is to become optimal.As verbs the difference between elevate and optimize
is that elevate is to raise (something) to a higher position; to lift while optimize is (originally|intransitive) to act optimistically or as an optimist.As an adjective elevate
is (obsolete) elevated; raised aloft.elevate
English
Verb
(elevat)- to elevate the voice
- The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.
- (Jeremy Taylor)