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Diverge vs Dissent - What's the difference?

diverge | dissent |

As verbs the difference between diverge and dissent

is that diverge is to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions while dissent is to disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from (or, formerly, to).

As a noun dissent is

disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion.

diverge

English

Verb

(diverg)
  • (intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • * 1916 , :
  • Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both /
  • To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
  • Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.
  • (intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).
  • The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.
  • To become different, to separate (from another line or path).
  • The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.
  • Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.
  • The sequence x_n = n^2 diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

    Antonyms

    * converge

    Derived terms

    * divergence * divergent

    Anagrams

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    dissent

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disagree; to withhold assent. Construed with from'' (or, formerly, ''to ).
  • * 1827 Thomas Jarman, Powell's Essay on Devises 2.293:
  • Where a trustee refuses either to assent or dissent , the Court will itself exercise his authority.
  • * 1830 Isaac D'Israeli, Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First 3.9.207:
  • Those who openly dissented from the acts which the King had carried through the Parliament.
  • To differ from , especially in opinion, beliefs, etc.
  • * 1654 John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon the Book of Job 33.32:
  • Some are so eristical and teasty, that they will not ... bear with any that dissent .
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
  • Natural reason dictates, that motion ought to be assigned to the bodies, which in kind and essence most agree with those bodies which do undoubtedly move, and rest to those which most dissent from them.
  • * 1871 George Grote, Fragments on Ethical Subjects 2.37:
  • If the public dissent from our views, we say that they ought to concur with us.
  • (obsolete) To be different; to have contrary characteristics.
  • (Hooker)

    Antonyms

    * (disagree) agree, assent, follow, allow, accept

    References

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Disagreement with the ideas, doctrines, decrees, etc. of a political party, government or religion.
  • An act of disagreeing with, or deviating from, the views and opinions of those holding authority.
  • (Anglo-American common law) A separate opinion filed in a case by judges who disagree with the outcome of the majority of the court in that case
  • (sports)
  • * 2014 , Jacob Steinberg, " Wigan shock Manchester City in FA Cup again to reach semi-finals", The Guardian , 9 March 2014:
  • City had been woeful, their anger at their own inertia summed up when Samir Nasri received a booking for dissent , and they did not have a shot on target until the 66th minute.

    Antonyms

    * agreement, assent, consensus, capitulation

    See also

    * majority opinion

    Anagrams

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