Initialize vs Initiate - What's the difference?
initialize | initiate | Related terms |
To assign initial values to something
(computing) To assign an initial value to a variable
(computing) To format a storage medium prior to use
(computing) To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use
(obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
* Young
To begin; to start.
* I. Taylor
To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
* Dr. H. More
* John Locke
To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
* Bishop Warburton
* Spectator
To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.
Initiate is a related term of initialize.
As verbs the difference between initialize and initiate
is that initialize is to assign initial values to something while initiate is to begin; to start.As an adjective initiate is
unpractised; untried; new.As a noun initiate is
a new member of an organization.initialize
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Alternative forms
* initialiseVerb
initiate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- the initiate fear that wants hard use
- To rise in science as in bliss, / Initiate in the secrets of the skies.
Verb
(initiat)- How are changes of this sort to be initiated ?
- Providence would only initiate mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry.
- To initiate his pupil into any part of learning, an ordinary skill in the governor is enough.
- The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honour after death.
- He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty.
- (Alexander Pope)