Captivate vs Gravitate - What's the difference?
captivate | gravitate |
To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
* Washington Irving
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, title= (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
* Shakespeare
* Glanvill
To move under the force of gravity.
* 1712 , Sir , Creation; a philosophical poem in seven books , book II:
(figuratively) To tend or drift towards someone or something, as though being pulled by gravity.
* 1776 , , Wealth of Nations :
* 1923 , , "J.B. Runs Things":
As verbs the difference between captivate and gravitate
is that captivate is to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm while gravitate is to move under the force of gravity.captivate
English
Verb
(captivat)- small landscapes of captivating loveliness
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- Their woes whom fortune captivates .
- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.
Anagrams
* ----gravitate
English
Verb
(gravitat)- The?e, who have nature's ?teps with care pur?ued,
That matter is with ac&- 8205;tive force endued,
That all its parts magnetic power exert,
And to each other gravitate , a??ert. - 8205;tive force endued,
- Children naturally gravitate to such a big, friendly man.
- The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating .
- Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.