Cerate vs Curate - What's the difference?
cerate | curate |
(medicine, archaic) An unctuous preparation for external application — mainly wax (or resin or spermaceti) mixed with oil, lard, and various medicinal ingredients — of a consistency between ointment and plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.
(Webster 1913)
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To act as a curator for.
To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
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To work or act as a curator.
As nouns the difference between cerate and curate
is that cerate is (medicine|archaic) an unctuous preparation for external application — mainly wax (or resin or spermaceti) mixed with oil, lard, and various medicinal ingredients — of a consistency between ointment and plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin while curate is an assistant rector or vicar.As a verb curate is
to act as a curator for.cerate
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curate
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Verb
(curat)- She curated the traveling exhibition.
- They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
- Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.