Compensate vs Compensator - What's the difference?
compensate | compensator |
To pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.
(ambitransitive) To make up for; to do something in place of something else; to correct, satisfy; to reach an agreement such that the scales are literally]] or ([[metaphor, metaphorically) balanced; to equalize or make even.
* Francis Bacon
* Prior
To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.
(literally) A party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation
Any device used to compensate for something, notably to achieve a better balance
A building control device used to deliver the compensation relationship or curve between the air temperature outside a building and the temperature of water or air provided to spaces or zones within the building for purposes of heating or cooling.
(nautical) One of several small magnets placed in the binnacle to neutralize the effect of the ship's metal on the compass
As a verb compensate
is to pay or reward someone in exchange for work done or some other consideration.As a noun compensator is
(literally) a party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation.compensate
English
Verb
(compensat)- It is hard work, but they will compensate you well for it.
- His loud voice cannot compensate for a lack of personality.
- To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
- The length of the night and the dews thereof do compensate the heat of the day.
- The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries.
- I don't like driving that old car because it always steers a little to the left so I'm forever compensating for that when I drive it. Trust me, it gets annoying real fast.
- To compensate for his broken leg, Gary uses crutches.
Derived terms
* compensation * compensatory * recompense * recompensateSynonyms
1. To pay * guerdon * reimburse to pay back 2. To make up for, correct, satisfy, or equalize, to balance the scales, to equalize or make even.
* equate
* offset
* redeem
* accord
* reconcile
* harmonize
* atone
* indemnify
* requite
* rectify
* level
* resolve
*
* amend
* expiate
* redress
* remedy
* remunerate
* appease
* restitute and restitution
3. To adjust to a change.
* acclimatize and acclimate
* accommodate
* accustom
* adapt
* accord
* counterbalance
* counteract
* integrate
* attune
External links
* * ----compensator
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Compensators ensure less heat is provided to a room on a warmer day. They may be implemented mechanically, electronically or in software.