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Affiliate vs Palliate - What's the difference?

affiliate | palliate |

As verbs the difference between affiliate and palliate

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 palliate is to relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.

As a noun affiliate

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

As an adjective palliate is

(obsolete) cloaked; hidden, concealed.

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

    palliate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Cloaked; hidden, concealed.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • (obsolete) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
    • (Bishop Fell)

    Verb

    (palliat)
  • To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
  • * 2009 , Boris Johnson, The Evening Standard , 15 Jan 09:
    • And if there are some bankers out there who are still embarrassed by the size of their bonuses, then I propose that they palliate their guilt by giving to the Mayor's Fund for London to help deprived children in London.
  • (obsolete) To hide or disguise.
  • To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.
  • (obsolete) To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.
  • To placate or mollify.
  • * 2007 , "Looking towards a Brown future", The Guardian , 25 Jan 07:
    • Brown's options for the machinery of Whitehall are constrained, as for all prime ministers, by the need to palliate allies and hug enemies close (John Reid, say).

    Related terms

    * palliation * palliative * pallium

    References

    * Paternoster, Lewis M. and Frager-Stone, Ruth. Three Dimensions of Vocabulary Growth. Second Edition. Amsco School Publications: USA. 1998. ----