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Curate vs Curite - What's the difference?

curate | curite |

As nouns the difference between curate and curite

is that curate is an assistant rector or vicar while curite is (mineral) an orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.

As a verb curate

is to act as a curator for.

curate

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)
  • an assistant rector or vicar
  • a parish priest
    • Derived terms
    * curate's egg

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (curat)
  • To act as a curator for.
    • She curated the traveling exhibition.
    They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
  • To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
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  • To work or act as a curator.
    • Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
    Derived terms
    * curated

    See also

    * ("curate" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms ----

    curite

    English

    Noun

  • (mineral) An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing hydrogen, lead, oxygen, and uranium.

    • References

    * Curite in the Mineralogy Database: [http://webmineral.com/data/Curite.shtml]