Summery vs Simplify - What's the difference?
summery | simplify |
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:
As an adjective summery
is relating to the summer.As a verb simplify is
to make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand.summery
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Synonyms
* (relating to the summer) aestival, estival, summer (as a modifier) * summerish, summerlike, summerlyDerived terms
* summerinesssimplify
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Verb
(en-verb)- 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.
