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Integrate vs Elaborate - What's the difference?

integrate | elaborate |

As verbs the difference between integrate and elaborate

is that integrate is to form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect while elaborate is (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) to give further detail or explanation (about).

As an adjective elaborate is

highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.

integrate

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

  • To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
  • To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
  • (mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
  • To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.

    • Anagrams

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    elaborate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
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  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
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  • *:The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

    • Verb

    (elaborat)
  • (used with'' on ''when used with an object ) To give further detail or explanation (about).
    • What do you mean you didn't come home last night? Would you care to elaborate ?
    Could you elaborate on the plot for your novel for me?