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Demarcate vs Disparate - What's the difference?

demarcate | disparate |

As a verb demarcate

is to mark the limits or boundaries of something; to delimit.

As an adjective disparate is

composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.

As a noun disparate is

(chiefly|in the plural) any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.

demarcate

English

Verb

(demarcat)
  • To mark the limits or boundaries of something; to delimit.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1907 , author=George Curzon , title= , passage=Small Committees of officials are frequently appointed in advance to consider the geographical, topographical, and ethnological evidence that is forthcoming, and to construct a tentative line for their respective Governments; this, after much debate, is embodied in a treaty, which provides for the appointment of Commissioners to demarcate the line upon the spot and submit it for ratification by the principals.}}
  • To mark the difference between two causes of action; to distinguish.
  • Synonyms

    * (to mark the limits or boundaries) (l), (l), (l)

    Anagrams

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    disparate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
  • The board of the company was decidedly disparate – no two members from the same social or economic background.
  • Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs; also, less properly, utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common genus.
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  • Synonyms

    * (composed of distinct elements ): incongruous, mismatched, uncoordinated * (markedly different ): different, dissimilar, unalike

    References

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.
  • Anagrams

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