Ruminate vs Speculate - What's the difference?
ruminate | speculate |
To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
To meditate or reflect.
To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
* Hawthorne
To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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, title= (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
In lang=en terms the difference between ruminate and speculate
is that ruminate is to meditate or ponder over; to muse on while speculate is to make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.As verbs the difference between ruminate and speculate
is that ruminate is to chew cud (said of ruminants) involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen while speculate is to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.As an adjective ruminate
is (botany) having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the north american papaw.ruminate
English
Verb
(ruminat)- A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
- I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
- What I know / Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.
- Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.
Synonyms
* See also * OrDerived terms
* ruminatorSee also
* chew the cudAdjective
(-)- a ruminate endosperm
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English
Verb
(speculat)- It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}