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Consolidate vs Congregate - What's the difference?

consolidate | congregate | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between consolidate and congregate

is that consolidate is to combine into a single unit; to group together or join 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 consolidate and congregate

is that consolidate is formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated while congregate is collective; assembled; compact.

consolidate

English

Verb

(consolidat)
  • (ambitransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.
  • He consolidated his luggage into a single large bag.
  • To make stronger or more solid.
  • Coordinate terms

    * ( combine into a single unit) (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.
  • * Elyot
  • A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate .
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    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 .

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