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Aggrandize vs Aggregate - What's the difference?

aggrandize | aggregate |

In transitive terms the difference between aggrandize and aggregate

is that aggrandize is to make appear great or greater; to exalt while aggregate is to amount in the aggregate to.

As a noun aggregate is

a mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.

As an adjective aggregate is

formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up.

aggrandize

English

Alternative forms

* aggrandise (mainly British)

Verb

(aggrandiz)
  • To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
    • to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress
  • To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc.
  • * Prescott
    • his scheme for aggrandizing his son
  • To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
    • (Charles Lamb)
  • To increase or become great.

    • aggregate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.(rfex)
  • A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; – in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.(rfex)
  • (mathematics, obsolete) A set (collection of objects).
  • (music) The full chromatic scale of twelve equal tempered pitches.
  • (roofing) Crushed stone, crushed slag or water-worn gravel used for surfacing a built-up roof system.
  • Solid particles of low aspect ratio added to a composite material, as distinguished from the matrix and any fibers or reinforcements, especially the gravel and sand added to concrete. (technical)

    • Synonyms

    * mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars: cluster

    See also

    * twelve-tone technique * serialism

    References

    * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 6.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective; combined; added up
  • Consisting or formed of smaller objects or parts.
  • Formed into clusters or groups of lobules.
    • aggregate glands.
  • (botany) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
  • Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
  • United into a common organized mass; said of certain compound animals.

    • Verb

    (aggregat)
  • To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.
    • The aggregated soil .
  • To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
  • To amount in the aggregate to.
    • ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels .

    Antonyms

    * segregate

    References

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