different between evolve vs widen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?volv? (“unroll, unfold”), from ?- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volv? (“roll”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?lv/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v?lv/
• Hyphenation: e?volve

Verb

evolve (third-person singular simple present evolves, present participle evolving, simple past and past participle evolved)

1. To move in regular procession through a system.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul

   • 1840, William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

     The principles which art involves, science alone evolves.

   • 1870, John Shairp, Culture and Religion

     Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.

2. (intransitive) To change; transform.

3. To come into being; develop.
   • 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime

     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.
4. (biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, p. 502:

     There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

5. (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

6. (transitive) To cause something to change or transform.

Related terms

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lve

Verb

evolve

1. third-person singular present indicative of evolvere

Latin

Etymology

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e??u?ol.u?e/, [e??u????u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?vol.ve/, [??v?lv?]

Verb

?volve

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?volv?

Portuguese

Verb

evolve

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of evolver
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of evolver

English

Etymology

From wide +? -en (verbal suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?d?n/
• Rhymes: -a?d?n

Verb

widen (third-person singular simple present widens, present participle widening, simple past and past participle widened)

1. (intransitive) To become wide or wider.

2. (transitive) To make wide or wider.
3. (transitive) To let out clothes to a larger size.

4. (transitive) To broaden or extend in scope or range.

5. (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that can hold a larger number of distinct values.

   Antonym: narrow

   to widen a short variable to an int variable

Derived terms

• widenable

Translations

Anagrams

• Edwin, Wendi, dwine, indew, winde, wined