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Conjugate vs Congregate - What's the difference?

conjugate | congregate |

In lang=en terms the difference between conjugate and congregate

is that conjugate is presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc while congregate is collective; assembled; compact.

As verbs the difference between conjugate and congregate

is that conjugate is to inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses while congregate is : To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.

As adjectives the difference between conjugate and congregate

is that conjugate is united in pairs; yoked together; coupled while congregate is collective; assembled; compact.

As a noun conjugate

is any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.

conjugate

English

Verb

(conjugat)
  • (grammar) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
  • In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
  • (rare) To join together, unite; to juxtapose.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 55:
  • *:The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.
  • (biology) To reproduce sexually as do some bacteria and algae, by exchanging or transferring DNA.
  • Hypernyms

    * inflect

    See also

    * decline

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
  • (mathematics) (of a complex number ) A complex conjugate.
  • (mathematics) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
  • (mathematics) An explementary angle.
  • (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
  • * Archbishop Bramhall
  • We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
  • (botany) In single pairs; coupled.
  • (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
  • (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
  • (math) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
  • congregate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Collective; assembled; compact.
  • * 1605 , (Francis Bacon), The Advancement of Learning , Book II, Chapter IX:
  • With this reservation, therefore, we proceed to human philosophy or humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate or distributively, the other congregate or in society; so as human philosophy is either simple and particular, or conjugate and civil.

    Verb

    (congregat)
  • (transitive): To collect into an assembly or assemblage; to assemble; to bring into one place, or into a united body; to gather together; to mass; to compact.
  • * Hooker,
  • Any multitude of Christian men congregated may be termed by the name of a church.
  • * Coleridge,
  • Cold congregates all bodies.
  • * Milton,
  • The great receptacle Of congregated waters he called Seas.
  • (intransitive): To come together; to assemble; to meet.
  • * ,
  • Even there where merchants most do congregate .

    Synonyms

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