Convene vs Invite - What's the difference?
convene | invite | Related terms |
To come together; to meet; to unite.
* Isaac Newton
To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
* Sir R. Baker
* Thomson
To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
To summon judicially to meet or appear.
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
To request formally.
To encourage.
* 1902 , Roosevelt,
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
* Milton
* Dryden
* Cowper
In transitive terms the difference between convene and invite
is that convene is to summon judicially to meet or appear while invite is to allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.As verbs the difference between convene and invite
is that convene is to come together; to meet; to unite while invite is to ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.As a noun invite is
an invitation.convene
English
Verb
(conven)- In short-sighted men the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.
- The Parliament of Scotland now convened .
- Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene .
Synonyms
* to meet * to assemble * to congregate * to collect * to unite * to summon * to convokeDerived terms
* convention * convener, convenorinvite
English
Verb
- We invited our friends round for dinner.
- I invite you all to be seated.
- I always invite criticism of my definitions.
- Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
- The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
- to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- There no delusive hope invites despair.
