Nominate vs Contribute - What's the difference?
nominate | contribute |
To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
(obsolete) To entitle, confer a name upon.
* 1658': the City of ''Norwich'' [...] was enlarged, builded and '''nominated by the ''Saxons''. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 12)
(zoology) nominotypical
To give something, that is or becomes part of a larger whole.
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As verbs the difference between nominate and contribute
is that nominate is to name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office while contribute is to give something, that is or becomes part of a larger whole.As an adjective nominate
is (zoology) nominotypical.nominate
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(-)- the nominate subspecies
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(contribut)Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}
