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Constitute vs Conflict - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between constitute and conflict

is that constitute is to cause to stand; to establish; to enact while conflict is to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.

As nouns the difference between constitute and conflict

is that constitute is (obsolete) an established law while conflict is a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.

constitute

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(constitut)
  • To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • Laws appointed and constituted by lawful authority.
  • To make up; to compose; to form.
  • * Johnson
  • Truth and reason constitute that intellectual gold that defies destruction.
  • To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
  • * William Wordsworth
  • Me didst Thou constitute a priest of thine.

    Synonyms

    * establish, enact * make up, compose, form

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An established law.
  • (Webster 1913)

    conflict

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
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  • An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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  • To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
  • Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

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