Lineage vs Legacy - What's the difference?
lineage | legacy |
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=July 19
, author=Ella Davies
, title=Sticks insects survive one million years without sex
, work=BBC
(advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.
* 1927 , William Leonard Crum, Advertising Fluctuations, Seasonal and Cyclical
(legal) money or property bequeathed to someone in a will
Something inherited from a predecessor; a heritage
The descendant of an alumnus
(computing) of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain
left behind; old or no longer in active use
As nouns the difference between lineage and legacy
is that lineage is descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage while legacy is money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.As an adjective legacy is
of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain.lineage
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Alternative forms
* linageNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction. }}
- Total newspaper advertising lineage in the North Atlantic region
See also
* genealogyReferences
* *legacy
English
Noun
(legacies)- left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
- Because she was a legacy , her mother's sorority rushed her.
Adjective
(head)- They expect it to take years to process and import all the legacy data.
- ''A legacy number or legacy identifier means a number no longer in use (for a document, for example)."
