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Integrate vs Engrave - What's the difference?

integrate | engrave |

As verbs the difference between integrate and engrave

is that integrate is to form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect while engrave is .

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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    engrave

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Etymology 1

    From earlier ingrave, equivalent to . More at (l).

    Verb

    (engrav)
  • (lb) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
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  • *:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
  • (lb) To carve (something) into a material.
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  • Synonyms
    * carve, etch, inscribe

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (engrav)
  • (obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
  • So both agree their bodies to engraue ; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].

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