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Conferring vs Confront - What's the difference?

conferring | confront |

As verbs the difference between conferring and confront

is that conferring is present participle of lang=en while confront is to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge.

As a noun conferring

is the act of one who confers.

conferring

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who confers.
  • * 1921 , Asia: Journal of the American Asiatic Association
  • His critics ask him if he expects to prevent the conferees in the Conference from talking to one another in the Metropolitan Club and from then coming to the Conference's open sessions merely to register the results of their secret conferrings .

    confront

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge.
  • We should confront him about the missing money.
  • To deal with.
  • To something bring face to face with.
  • To come up against; to encounter.
  • To engage in confrontation.
  • To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
  • To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
  • Derived terms

    * confrontation * confrontational * confronter * confrontment