What's the difference between elide and elude?

Elide


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.
  • (v. t.) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The truth is a large part of the media today not merely elides the two but does so now as a matter of course."
  • (2) Arguing that one drug should be legalised while others not seems to elide this question of public policy.
  • (3) For one thing, they assume that Euroscepticism elides into far-right extremism, when sometimes it does and sometimes it does not.
  • (4) The musical history of multi-racial Britain is usually elided to omit the 50s, jumping to the Jamaican insurgency of the 60s, but in London at least there was a vibrant scene, ranging from the big band swing of Jamaica's Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson to the steel band of Trinidadian Russ Henderson.
  • (5) We studied the fine structure of the envelope of Escherichia coli auxotroph K1060 after the cells were grown in the presence of one of the following fatty acids; oleic, palmitelaidic, or elidic acid.
  • (6) Every presidential aspirant issues that boilerplate – as it elides an explanation of what the candidate thinks is worth fighting for – but Clinton’s long public record, which she uses as a selling point against Trump, gives reason to doubt it.
  • (7) And couldn't poor Brod see that in eliding Lehár's jolly and farcical operetta with Wagner's crushing toten lieder , Kafka manages in a single aside to undermine the entire airy and castellated edifice of late German romanticism?
  • (8) The mistake here is to elide styles of play that are boring (Ivan Lendl then, Milos Raonic now) with personal qualities that might be boring, but have nothing to do with tennis.
  • (9) It's a densely packed insult, in which Grayling manages not only to elide criminality with stupidity, but also takes a difficult background as a reason to disregard a person's judgment, and most strikingly, uses the fact that someone has been arrested as an indication that they are probably guilty.
  • (10) So the focus for investigation has slipped from extremism to "an awareness of the risks associated with extremism" in the elided phrase now used by Ofsted inspectors to condemn the schools most heavily involved, such as Park View academy.
  • (11) It is at once both public and deeply private , facilitating both an openness and vulnerability which elide other forums.
  • (12) That's hardly a landslide, even if you elide Euroscepticism and the far right together, which I do not.
  • (13) Compared to What also acknowledges but quickly elides a scandal from early in his career where Frank had a relationship with a man he hired, first for sex and later as his driver, who ran a prostitution ring from Frank’s apartment .
  • (14) What has happened of course is that hacking has been elided with a different set of criticisms of the press, which is that it too enthusiastically and brutally invades the privacy of the innocent, that it engages in character assassination too unthinkingly, and that it is slow and mean-spirited in correcting mistakes.
  • (15) When you are a white, socially powerful person travelling overseas and you're describing the people you meet in simplistic terms, you elide the reality of their lives and turn them into Disney sideshow attractions there for your entertainment, rather than human beings going about their daily lives.
  • (16) Frischmann was part of a strange ménage à trois that elided into Britpop - itself one of the most peculiar cultural episodes of recent times.
  • (17) Then, while we are distracted by visions of garrulous Roman senators, he casually elides philosophy with all expertise and then all expertise with the reading of chicken entrails.
  • (18) Obama effectively offered to trade an end to the Iraq war for continuation of the war on terrorism, something both his liberal supporters and conservative critics elided as it fit neither the picture of Obama the liberal savior or Obama the naive peacenik.
  • (19) "Causing offence" is so easily elided into inciting hatred, then inciting violence, then to being the cause of actual violence.
  • (20) Put simply this country was not ceded by treaty and the high court’s decision in Mabo elides the distinction between conquered and settled.

Elude


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bill allows Obama to claim another major piece of legislation to put alongside the economic stimulus bill passed last year, which stands comparison with Roosevelt's New Deal, and the healthcare bill earlier this year, which achieved a goal that had eluded previous presidents.
  • (2) The decision prompted Human Rights Watch to warn that he should not be allowed "to elude serious legal proceedings against him".
  • (3) Whether these two sera specifically affect sperm-zona pellucida binding or non-specifically affect the normal progression of capacitation remains to be eludicated.
  • (4) When Kristine Minde eluded Claire Rafferty at the far post she was well placed to meet Solveig Gulbrandsen’s long diagonal ball.
  • (5) This was a distinction that eluded the broadcaster Alan Jones on Wednesday when he was accused by an Abbott government minister of running a “racist” scare campaign about foreign ownership of Australian farmland.
  • (6) Such anomalous conditions occurring either alone or in combination elude diagnosis and pose problems for management.
  • (7) It is suggested that all patients suffering from the K-T syndrome should be examined by Doppler ultrasound in the hope that microfistulas which elude radiodiagnostic techniques might be detected and treated surgically.
  • (8) This disease eludes all known forms of therapy and results in edentulousness after only a few years.
  • (9) The phenomenon of antigenic shifts may make it possible for the bacteria to elude antibodies.
  • (10) The GABA-receptor at the Ascaris muscle cell which mediates a membrane hyperpolarization and muscle relaxation has eluded classification.
  • (11) Finally, the article demonstrates practical and efficient methods of cooperation between neurologists and the referring chiropractic physician that has eluded these professions for almost a century.
  • (12) It was the year when we saw predators for who they really are, even if justice eludes them.
  • (13) The pros and cons of the various B-scan modes are discussed, and the preferences of the combination of the linear scan and the arc scan is eludicated with experimental results.
  • (14) Could you have imagined at the start of your career that a league title would elude you?
  • (15) 9.32pm GMT 79 mins: A long Houston ball eludes Driver.
  • (16) The one major medal Pirlo lacks for club or country has eluded him.
  • (17) Nonetheless, she has dealt with these online critics with the kind of grace that eludes people older and allegedly more rational than her (well, HELLO there, Richard Dawkins!)
  • (18) Even classic tragedy on the Oscar Wilde scale eluded him.
  • (19) His inswinging ball eluded Winston Reid at the front post but found Antonio, whose stooping header came off his marker Deeney and past the bewildered Heurelho Gomes.
  • (20) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.