Conflate vs Adulterate - What's the difference?
conflate | adulterate |
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.
Tending to commit adultery.
* , I.v.
Corrupted; impure; adulterated.
To corrupt.
To spoil by adding impurities.
* Spectator
To commit adultery.
To defile by adultery.
As verbs the difference between conflate and adulterate
is that conflate is to bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity while adulterate is to corrupt.As adjectives the difference between conflate and adulterate
is that conflate is (biblical criticism) combining elements from multiple versions of the same text while adulterate is tending to commit adultery.As a noun conflate
is (biblical criticism) a conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.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.
Noun
(en noun)References
Anagrams
* ----adulterate
English
(wikipedia adulterate)Adjective
(en adjective)- Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
- With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts-
- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
- So to seduce!- won to his shameful lust
- The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
Verb
(adulterat)- to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coins, etc.
- The present war has adulterated our tongue with strange words.
- (Milton)
