Discord vs Disjoint - What's the difference?
discord | disjoint |
Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
* Bible, Proverbs vi. 19
* Burke
Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
(music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
* Francis Bacon
(archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
* Francis Bacon
not smooth or continuous; disjointed
(set theory) (not used in the comparative or superlative ) Of two or more sets, having no members in common; having an intersection equal to the empty set.
To render ; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.
* Prior
* Longfellow
To break the natural order and relations of; to make incoherent.
To fall into pieces.
As verbs the difference between discord and disjoint
is that discord is (archaic) to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash while disjoint is to render ; to remove a connection, linkage, or intersection.As a noun discord
is lack of concord, agreement or harmony.As an adjective disjoint is
not smooth or continuous; disjointed.discord
English
Noun
- A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
- Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
- For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.
Verb
(en verb)- The one discording with the other.
disjoint
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* non-disjoint * overlappingVerb
(en verb)- to disjoint''' limbs; to '''disjoint''' bones; to '''disjoint poultry by carving
- Yet what could swords or poisons, racks or flame, / But mangle and disjoint the brittle frame?
- Some half-ruined wall / Disjointed and about to fall.
- a disjointed speech
- (Shakespeare)