Embody vs Enroll - What's the difference?
embody | enroll |
To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify
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* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.}}
To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole
To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
* Prescott
* Milton
To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of
To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)
(obsolete) To envelop; to enwrap.
In transitive terms the difference between embody and enroll
is that embody is to include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole while enroll is to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.embody
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Verb
(en-verb)- As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
- The soul, while it is embodied , can no more be divided from sin.
citation
- The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.
- The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.
Derived terms
* disembody * embodimentenroll
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Alternative forms
* enrol (UK) (CA)Verb
(en verb)- All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
- An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling .
- They were eager to enroll new recruits.
- Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
- (Spenser)