Elute vs Elude - What's the difference?
elute | elude |
To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse.
To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 26.
To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip.
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To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.
In transitive terms the difference between elute and elude
is that elute is to separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse while elude is to escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to.elute
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Verb
(elut)- A mixture of isooctane and ethyl acetate can be used to elute triglycerides from a complex lipid solution.
References
*Elute, Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 2007.
elude
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Verb
(elud)- Thus the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.
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