Commingle vs Conflate - What's the difference?
commingle | conflate | Synonyms |
To mix, to blend.
To become mixed or blended.
To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
To mix together different elements.
To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to treat (them) as equivalent.
(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
* 1999 , Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint :
(biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
Conflate is a synonym of commingle.
As verbs the difference between commingle and conflate
is that commingle is to mix, to blend while conflate is to bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.As an adjective conflate is
combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.As a noun conflate is
a conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.commingle
English
(Commingling)Alternative forms
* co-mingleVerb
(commingl)Usage notes
Particularly used in financial law to refer to mixing funds – see (commingling).conflate
English
Verb
(conflat)Synonyms
* (to bring together) fuse, meld * (mix together) mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, mergeAdjective
(-)- Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.