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Embody vs Enroll - What's the difference?

embody | enroll |

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

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify
  • As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
  • * South
  • The soul, while it is embodied , can no more be divided from sin.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
  • , 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
  • 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 * embodiment

    enroll

    English

    Alternative forms

    * enrol (UK) (CA)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
  • * Prescott
  • All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
  • * Milton
  • 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 .
  • To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of
  • They were eager to enroll new recruits.
  • To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)
  • Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
  • (obsolete) To envelop; to enwrap.
  • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (enter in a register) list, note, note down, record, register * (enlist) enlist, sign up, subscribe * (become a member) enlist, join, join up, sign up, subscribe * (join a class) add, register for

    Derived terms

    * enrollee * enroller * enrollment