Innovate vs Initiative - What's the difference?
innovate | initiative |
(obsolete) To alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.
* , New York 2001, p.80:
* South
To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.
To introduce (something) as new.
A beginning; a first move.
A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
The ability to act first or on one's own.
An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
In which voter s can be brought to the ballot.
* John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch", in, 2008, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions , , ISBN 9780230604452, page 122 [http://books.google.com/books?id=J6swcucKdNIC&pg=PA122&dq=initiative]:
As a verb innovate
is (obsolete|transitive) to alter, to change into something new; to revolutionize.As a noun initiative is
.innovate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- But the most frequent maladies are such as proceed from themselves, as first when religion and God's service is neglected, innovated or altered […].
- From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship.
- to innovate a word or an act
Derived terms
* innovative * innovation * innovatoryAnagrams
* ----initiative
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (issue to be voted on) direct initiativeDerived terms
* direct initiativeAdjective
(-)- The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.