Conflate vs Confluent - What's the difference?
conflate | confluent |
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.
Converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).
* 1851 ,
(meteorology) (Of wind) which converges, especially when viewed on a weather chart
(biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass
(geometry) (Of a triangle) which is exactly the same size as another triangle.
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As adjectives the difference between conflate and confluent
is that conflate is (biblical criticism) combining elements from multiple versions of the same text while confluent is converging, merging into continuous shape (of two or more objects).As a verb conflate
is to bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.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
* ----confluent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A confluent smallpox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.