In transitive terms the difference between simplify and streamline
is that
simplify is to make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand while
streamline is to modernise.
As a noun streamline is
a line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow.
simplify English
Verb
( en-verb)
To make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.
To become simpler.
* 2006 , Karen Oslund, “Reading Backwards: Language Politics and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia”, in David L. Hoyt and Karen Oslund (editors), The Study of Language and the Politics of Community in Global Context , Lexington Books, ISBN 978-0-7391-0955-7, page 126:
- Thus, throughout the nineteenth century, linguists generally held that more grammatically complex languages were older and that languages tended to simplify over time—the four grammatical cases of German as contrasted with the seven of Latin, for example.
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streamline Noun
( en noun)
(physics) A line that is tangent to the velocity of flow of a fluid; equivalent to the path of a specific particle in that flow.
(meteorology) On a weather chart, a line that is tangent to the flow of the wind.
See also
* streakline
* pathline
Verb
(en-verb)
To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
(by extension) To simplify or organize a process in order to increase its efficiency.
To modernise.
Derived terms
* streamliner
Anagrams
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