Excite vs Incline - What's the difference?
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To stir the emotions of.
To arouse or bring out (eg feelings); to stimulate.
(physics) To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level.
(lb) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
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(lb) To slope.
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To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
*(rfdate), J. M. G. van der Poel, "Agriculture in Pre- and Protohistoric Times", in the Acta Historiae Neerlandica published by the Netherlands Committee of Historical Sciences, p.170:
*:The terp farmer made use of the plough, as is shown by the discovery of three ploughshares and four coulters..
*Usage note: In this sense incline is usually used in the passive voice, and usually intransitively.
Excite is a related term of incline.
As verbs the difference between excite and incline
is that excite is while incline is .As an adjective excite
is horny; excited.excite
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Verb
(excit)- The fireworks which opened the festivities excited anyone present.
- Favoritism tends to excite jealousy in the ones not being favored.
- The political reforms excited unrest among to population.
- There are drugs designed to excite certain nerves in our body.
- By applying electric potential to the neon atoms, the electrons become excited , then emit a photon when returning to normal.