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Evolves vs Elevates - What's the difference?

evolves | elevates |

As verbs the difference between evolves and elevates

is that evolves is (evolve) while elevates is .

evolves

English

Verb

(head)
  • (evolve)
    • ----

    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 ----

    elevates

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (elevate)

    • elevate

    English

    Verb

    (elevat)
  • 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.
    • to elevate the voice
  • (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo.
  • (obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Synonyms

    * (raise) lift, raise * (promote) promote, exalt * (ennoble) ennoble, honour/honor, exalt * (elate) cheer up, elate * (increase the intensity of) increase, raise, turn up, up (informal)

    Antonyms

    * (raise) drop, lower * (promote) demote * (elate) depress, sadden * (increase the intensity of) decrease, diminish, lower, reduce, turn down

    Related terms

    * elevation * elevator * lever * levity

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.
    • (Milton)

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