Conflate vs Connect - What's the difference?
conflate | connect |
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.
(of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
(of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
(of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
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, title= (of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
To associate.
To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
As verbs the difference between conflate and connect
is that conflate is to bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity while connect is to join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.As an adjective conflate
is combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.As a noun conflate
is a conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.conflate
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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.
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(en noun)References
Anagrams
* ----connect
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Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}