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Capable vs Congregate - What's the difference?

capable | congregate |

As adjectives the difference between capable and congregate

is that capable is able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something while congregate is collective; assembled; compact.

As a verb congregate is

: To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.

capable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
    • She is capable and efficient.
    He does not need help; he is capable of eating on his own.
    As everyone knew, he was capable of violence when roused.
    That fact is not capable of proof.
  • (obsolete) Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in. Construed with of'', ''for or an infinitive.
  • * 1775 Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland'' (''Works 10.479):
    • He has begun a road capable of a wheel-carriage.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * incapable

    Derived terms

    * capability noun

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    congregate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Collective; assembled; compact.
  • * 1605 , (Francis Bacon), The Advancement of Learning , Book II, Chapter IX:
    • With this reservation, therefore, we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or distributively, the other congregate or in society; so as human philosophy is either simple and particular, or conjugate and civil.

    Verb

    (congregat)
  • (transitive): To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
  • * Hooker,
    • Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.
  • * Coleridge,
    • Cold congregates all bodies.
  • * Milton,
    • The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas.
  • (intransitive): To come together; to assemble; to meet.
  • * ,
    • Even there where merchants most do congregate .

    Synonyms

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    Related terms

    * congregation