Transduce vs Traduce - What's the difference?
transduce | traduce |
To convert energy from one form to another
(biology) To transfer genetic material from one bacterial cell to another
To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
* , scene 4
(archaic) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , X:
(archaic) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
* 1865 , "The Last of the Tercentenary", Temple Bar , vol. XIII, Mar 1865:
In transitive terms the difference between transduce and traduce
is that transduce is to convert energy from one form to another while traduce is to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.transduce
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* English transitive verbs ----traduce
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(traduc)- This heavy-headed revel east and west
Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
- However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son [...].
- From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved'' ''Macbaeth'' to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of ''Hamlet , and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.
