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Affiliate vs Incorporate - What's the difference?

affiliate | incorporate |

In lang=en terms the difference between affiliate and incorporate

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 incorporate is to form into a legal company.

As verbs the difference between affiliate and incorporate

is that affiliate is to adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally while incorporate is to include (something) as a part.

As a noun affiliate

is someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.

As an adjective incorporate is

(obsolete) corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

affiliate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.
  • The local channel was an affiliate of a national network.

    Verb

    (affiliat)
  • To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
  • * I. Taylor
  • Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
  • To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child.
  • to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
  • To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
  • * H. Spencer
  • How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
  • 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 .
  • Derived terms

    * affiliate with * affiliate to * affiliation

    incorporate

    English

    Verb

    (incorporat)
  • To include (something) as a part.
  • The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
    to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
  • * Addison
  • The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
  • To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
  • Incorporate air into the mixture.
  • To admit as a member of a company
  • To form into a legal company.
  • The company was incorporated in 1980.
  • (US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the , such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
  • To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
  • * Shakespeare
  • By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
  • To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
  • * Bishop Stillingfleet
  • The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.

    Derived terms

    * incorporated

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
  • * Shakespeare
  • As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate .
  • * Francis Bacon
  • a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
  • Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate .
  • Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
  • an incorporate banking association

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