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Congregate vs Integrate - What's the difference?

congregate | integrate |

As verbs the difference between congregate and integrate

is that congregate is (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 while integrate is to form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.

As an adjective congregate

is (rare) collective; assembled; compact.

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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    integrate

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

  • To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
  • To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
  • (mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
  • To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
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