Simplify vs Exclude - What's the difference?
simplify | exclude |
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:
To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
To expel; to put out.
(legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
(medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
As verbs the difference between simplify and exclude
is that simplify is to make simpler, either by reducing in complexity, reducing to component parts, or making easier to understand while exclude is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.simplify
English
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.
Derived terms
* oversimplify * simplification * simplifier English ergative verbsexclude
English
Verb
(exclud)- to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs