Symbolize vs Delegate - What's the difference?
symbolize | delegate |
To be symbolic of; to represent.
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, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
(obsolete) To resemble each other in qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
* Francis Bacon
* Howell
(obsolete) To hold the same faith; to agree.
* G. S. Faber
a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
a representative at a conference, etc.
(US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
(computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
to authorize someone to be a delegate
to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
(computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours
As verbs the difference between symbolize and delegate
is that symbolize is to be symbolic of; to represent while delegate is to authorize someone to be a delegate.As a noun delegate is
a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.symbolize
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Alternative forms
* symbolise (UK )Verb
(en-verb)citation, passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
- The pleasing of colour symbolizeth' with the pleasing of any single tone to the ear; but the pleasing of order doth ' symbolize with harmony.
- They both symbolize in this, that they love to look upon themselves through multiplying glasses.
- The believers in pretended miracles have always previously symbolized with the performers of them.