Accompany vs Announce - What's the difference?
accompany | announce |
To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with.
* 1804 :
* 1581 , (Philip Sidney), An Apology of Poetry, or a Defense of Poesy , Book I:
* 1979 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), The History of England :
To supplement with; add to.
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, title= (senseid)(music) To perform an accompanying part or parts in a composition.
(music) To perform an accompanying part next to another instrument.
(obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.
* (rfdate) Holland:
(obsolete) To cohabit (with).
(obsolete) To cohabit with; to coexist with; occur with.
(label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
* (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)
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, title= (label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
As verbs the difference between accompany and announce
is that accompany is to go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with while announce is (label) to give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.accompany
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The Persian dames, […] / In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march.
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- Men say that they will drive away one another, […] and not accompany together.
Usage notes
(to go with) Persons are said to be accompanied by', and inanimate objects, state or condition is said to be accompanied ' with .Synonyms
* (go with) attend, escort, go with :* We accompany those with whom we go as companions. The word imports an equality of station. :* We attend those whom we wait upon or follow. The word conveys an idea of subordination . :* We escort those whom we attend with a view to guard and protect . :*: A gentleman accompanies' a friend to some public place; he '''attends''' or ' escorts a lady.announce
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Verb
(announc)- Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}
Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
- Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.
