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Conducive vs Affiliate - What's the difference?

conducive | affiliate |

As an adjective conducive

is tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.

As a noun affiliate is

someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.

As a verb affiliate is

to adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

conducive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to contribute to, encourage, or bring about some result.
  • A small, dark kitchen is not conducive to elaborate cooking.

    Antonyms

    * inconducive * unconducive

    See also

    * conduce

    affiliate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.
  • The local channel was an affiliate of a national network.

    Verb

    (affiliat)
  • To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
  • * I. Taylor
  • Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
  • To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child.
  • to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
  • To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
  • * H. Spencer
  • How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
  • To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to'' or ''with .
  • Derived terms

    * affiliate with * affiliate to * affiliation