Devise vs Innovate - What's the difference?
devise | innovate |
To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
* Bancroft
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To leave (property) in a will.
(archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
* Alexander Pope
(archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
The act of leaving real property in a will.
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
* Bancroft
The real property left in such a will.
(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.
In transitive terms the difference between devise and innovate
is that devise is to leave (property) in a will while innovate is to introduce (something) as new.As a noun devise
is the act of leaving real property in a will.devise
English
(wikipedia devise)Verb
(devis)- to devise''' an argument; to '''devise a machine, or a new system of writing
- devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
- Thus, the task of the linguist devising' a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to '''devise a ''finite'' set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an ''infinite set of well-formed sentences.
- I thought, devised , and Pallas heard my prayer.
- For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore / They are which fortunes do by vows devise .
- (Spenser)
Noun
(en noun)- Fines upon devises were still exacted.
See also
* device * devisingAnagrams
* ----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