Intricate vs Multiple - What's the difference?
intricate | multiple | Related terms |
Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity.
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*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:His style was fit to convey the most intricate business to the understanding with the utmost clearness.
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*:As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
To become enmeshed or entangled.
* 1864 October 18, J.E. Freund, “
To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate.
* 1994 December 12, , “
Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (mathematics) A number that may be divided by another number with no remainder.
* 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
(finance) Price-earnings ratio.
One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
A single individual who has multiple personalities.
* 2010 , Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
* 2000 , Henk Driessen, ?Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification (page 115)
Intricate is a related term of multiple.
As adjectives the difference between intricate and multiple
is that intricate is having a great deal of fine detail or complexity while multiple is multiple.As a verb intricate
is to become enmeshed or entangled.intricate
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Alternative forms
* entricateEtymology 1
From (etyl) intricatus'' (past participle of ''intricare ).Adjective
(en adjective)Etymology 2
As the adjective; or by analogy with extricateVerb
(intricat)How to Avoid the Use of Lint”, letter to the editor, in The New York Times (1864 October 23):
- washes off easily, without sticking or intricating into the wound.
Avoid Dunkirk II” (essay), in The New York Times :
- But the British and French won't hear of that; they want to get their troops extricated and our ground troops intricated .
Anagrams
* ----multiple
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(wikipedia multiple)Adjective
(en adjective)Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Antonyms
* (many) (l) (rare)Derived terms
* Law of multiple proportion (Law of Dalton) * multiple algebra * multiple conjugation * multiple exposure * multiple fruits * multiple orgasm * multiple starNoun
(en noun)- I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
- Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.
