Transcend vs Evolve - What's the difference?
transcend | evolve |
to pass beyond the limits of something.
* Francis Bacon
to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To climb; to mount.
To move in regular procession through a system.
* Sir M. Hale
* (William Whewell) (1794-1866)
* (w) (1819-1885)
To change, transform, develop.
* 1939 , , Uncle Fred in the Springtime
(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
As verbs the difference between transcend and evolve
is that transcend is to pass beyond the limits of something while evolve is to move in regular procession through a system.transcend
English
Verb
(en verb)- such popes as shall transcend their limits
- How much her worth transcended all her kind.
- lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
- (Howell)
Derived terms
* transcendence * transcendency * transcendent * transcendental * transcendentalism * transcendentalist * transcendentally * transcendingExternal links
* *evolve
English
Verb
- The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
- The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .
- Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
- You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
