Equipped vs Efficient - What's the difference?
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(equip)
To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.
To dress up; to array; accouter.
To prepare (someone) with a skill
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
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Using a particular proportion of available energy.
Causing effects; producing results.
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Equipped is a related term of efficient.
As a verb equipped
is (equip).As an adjective efficient is
efficient.equipped
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Verb
(head)equip
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(Webster 1913)Verb
- Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.
- The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.
Anagrams
* (l), ----efficient
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Adjective
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- The efficient cause is the working cause.