Consolidate vs Recycle - What's the difference?
consolidate | recycle |
(ambitransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.
To make stronger or more solid.
(obsolete) Formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.
* Elyot
To break down and reuse component materials.
To reuse as a whole.
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
To collect or place in a bin for recycling.
(ergative) To be recycled.
As verbs the difference between consolidate and recycle
is that consolidate is (ambitransitive) to combine into a single unit; to group together or join while recycle is .As an adjective consolidate
is (obsolete) formed into a solid mass; made firm; consolidated.consolidate
English
Verb
(consolidat)- He consolidated his luggage into a single large bag.
Coordinate terms
* ( combine into a single unit) (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- A gentleman [should learn to ride] while he is tender and the brawns and sinews of his thighs not fully consolidate .
recycle
English
Verb
(Recycling) (recycl)- Recycled paper.
- Recycled plastic.
- Jokes are recycled so frequently, it’s as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a character on one side of the frame says something could never happen as it simultaneously happens on the other side of the frame, they’d have enough to pay the surcharge for the movie’s badly implemented 3-D.
- Sulfur recycles in the sulfur cycle.