Corroborate vs Correlate - What's the difference?
corroborate | correlate |
To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to attest or vouch for.
* I. Taylor
To make strong; to strengthen.
* I. Watts
To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
To be related by a correlation
* Tylor
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In transitive terms the difference between corroborate and correlate
is that corroborate is to make strong; to strengthen while correlate is to compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics.As a noun correlate is
either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.corroborate
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Verb
(corroborat)- The concurrence of all corroborates the same truth.
- As any limb well and duly exercised, grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corroborated thereby.
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* * * ----correlate
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Verb
- Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.
- As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.