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Inaugurate vs Evolve - What's the difference?

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Inaugurate is a related term of evolve.


As verbs the difference between inaugurate and evolve

is that inaugurate is to induct into office with a formal ceremony while evolve is to move in regular procession through a system.

As an adjective inaugurate

is invested with office; inaugurated.

inaugurate

English

Verb

(inaugurat)
  • To induct into office with a formal ceremony.
  • To dedicate ceremoniously; to initiate something in a formal manner.
  • * 2008 , The Economist, Solar energy: the power of concentration
  • Acciona, a Spanish conglomerate, is due to inaugurate a new power plant a few miles from Las Vegas.

    Derived terms

    * inaugural * inauguration * inaugurator * inauguratory

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Invested with office; inaugurated.
  • (Drayton)

    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).