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Implicate vs Applicate - What's the difference?

implicate | applicate |

As verbs the difference between implicate and applicate

is that implicate is to connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something while applicate is to apply (a material to a surface).

As a noun applicate is

an applied material; an application.

As an adjective applicate is

applied or put to some use.

implicate

English

Verb

(implicat)
  • To connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.
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  • , title= A punch in the gut , passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
  • To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.
  • (archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.
  • See also

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    applicate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An applied material; an application
  • (mathematics) A line at right angles to the axis of a conic section that extends from the axis to the curve
  • (mathematics) The z-, similar to abscissa and ordinate for the x- and y-coordinates, respectively.
  • See also

    * abscissa * ordinate

    Verb

    (applicat)
  • To apply (a material to a surface)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Applied or put to some use.
  • * I. Taylor
  • Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements.
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