Expedite vs Streamline - What's the difference?
expedite | streamline |
To accelerate the progress of.
To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.
Free of impediment; unimpeded.
* Hooker
Expeditious; quick; prompt.
* Tillotson
* John Locke
(physics) A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow.
(meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.
To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
(by extension) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
To modernise.
In transitive terms the difference between expedite and streamline
is that expedite is to perform (a task) fast and efficiently while streamline is to modernise.As an adjective expedite
is free of impediment; unimpeded.As a noun streamline is
a line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow.expedite
English
Verb
(expedit)- He expedited the search by alphabetizing the papers.
Antonyms
* impede * slow downAdjective
(en adjective)- to make the way plain and expedite
- nimble and expedite in its operation
- Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts.