Affiliate vs Correlate - What's the difference?
affiliate | correlate | Related terms |
Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.
To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
* I. Taylor
To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child.
To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
* H. Spencer
To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to'' or ''with .
To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
To be related by a correlation
* Tylor
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In transitive terms the difference between affiliate and correlate
is that affiliate is to connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to while correlate is to compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.In intransitive terms the difference between affiliate and correlate
is that affiliate is to attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to or with while correlate is to be related by a correlation.affiliate
English
Noun
(en noun)- The local channel was an affiliate of a national network.
Verb
(affiliat)- Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
- to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
- How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
Derived terms
* affiliate with * affiliate to * affiliationcorrelate
English
Verb
- Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
- As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.