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Concatenate vs Disunite - What's the difference?

concatenate | disunite |

As verbs the difference between concatenate and disunite

is that concatenate is to join or link together, as though in a chain while disunite is to cause disagreement or alienation among or within.

concatenate

English

(Wikipedia)

Verb

(concatenat)
  • To join or link together, as though in a chain.
  • * 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason , (Penguin 2004), page 182)
  • Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion , the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.
  • Computer instruction to join two strings together.
  • Concatenating "Man" with " is mortal" gives "Man is mortal"
    The Unix program is used to concatenate and display files. Its name comes from the word catenate.

    Derived terms

    * concatenation * concatenative

    disunite

    English

    Verb

  • To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
  • * 1516 , , Utopia , "Of Their Military Discipline":
  • If they cannot disunite them by domestic broils, then they engage their neighbours against them.
  • * 1863 , , Hard Cash , ch. 44:
  • Secrets disunite a family.
  • To separate, sever, or split.
  • * 1899 , , Jennie Baxter, Journalist , ch. 16:
  • I have discovered how to disunite that force and that particle.
  • To disintegrate; to come apart.
  • * 1843 , , A Blot In The 'Scutcheon , Act I:
  • You cannot bind me more to you, my lord.
    Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew
    A converse ne'er to disunite again.

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