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Evolve vs Envolve - What's the difference?

evolve | envolve |

As verbs the difference between evolve and envolve

is that evolve is to move in regular procession through a system while envolve is (involve).

evolve

English

Verb

  • To move in regular procession through a system.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
  • * (William Whewell) (1794-1866)
    • The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .
  • * (w) (1819-1885)
    • Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
  • To change, transform, develop.
  • * 1939 , , Uncle Fred in the Springtime
    • You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
  • (biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
  • (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

    • Related terms

    * evolute * evolution * evolutional * evolutionary * evolutionally * evolutionarily * evolutionism * evolutionist * evolutionistic * evolutionistically * evolutive * evolutiveness * evolutivity * evolvable * evolvability * evolvement * evolver ----

    envolve

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (involve)
  • * 1828 , Shenstone, ed. William Fordyce Mavor, "To a Lady on the Language of the Birds", Classical English Poetry, for the use of schools, and young persons in general. A new edition, revised and improved , page 355
    • Envolve the mazes, and the mist dispel:
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