Collaborated vs Participated - What's the difference?
collaborated | participated |
(collaborate)
To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
(participate)
To join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something).
(obsolete) To share, share in (something).
* 1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , I:
(obsolete) To share (something) (with) others; to transfer (something) (to) or (unto) others.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , II:
(obsolete) Acting in common; participating.
* 1608 , , I. i. 101:
As verbs the difference between collaborated and participated
is that collaborated is (collaborate) while participated is (participate).collaborated
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(head)References
* *collaborate
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(collaborat)- Let's collaborate on this dictionary, and get it finished faster.
- If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.
See also
* collaborator * collaborationReferences
* * * * ----participated
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(head)participate
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(participat)- they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup [...].
- Make the Earth [...] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star.
Adjective
(-)- And, mutually participate , did minister / Unto the appetite and affection common / Of the whole body.