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Coincide vs Reconcile - What's the difference?

coincide | reconcile |

As verbs the difference between coincide and reconcile

is that coincide is to occupy exactly the same space while reconcile is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

coincide

English

Verb

  • To occupy exactly the same space.
    • The two squares coincide nicely.
  • To occur at the same time.
    • The conference will coincide with his vacation.
  • To correspond, concur, or agree.
    • Our ideas coincide , except in certain areas.

    Derived terms

    * coincident * coincidence

    See also

    * incident * accident * simultaneous ----

    reconcile

    English

    (reconciliation)

    Verb

    (reconcil)
  • To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
    • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
  • To make things compatible or consistent.
    • to reconcile differences
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
  • * John Locke
    • The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
  • To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

    • Derived terms

    * reconciliation