Harmonize vs Compromise - What's the difference?
harmonize | compromise |
To be in (l) (l).
(music) To play or sing in harmony.
To bring things into harmony, or to make things (l).
To provide the harmony for a (l).
The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
* Shakespeare
* Burke
* Hallam
A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
* Lamb
(ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
* Shakespeare
To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
* Fuller
To find a way between extremes.
To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
* Motley
To cause impairment of.
To breach (a security system).
In lang=en terms the difference between harmonize and compromise
is that harmonize is to provide the harmony for a (l) while compromise is to breach (a security system).As verbs the difference between harmonize and compromise
is that harmonize is to be in (l) (l) while compromise is (ambitransitive) to bind by mutual agreement.As a noun compromise is
the settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.harmonize
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* (l) (British)Verb
compromise
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(wikipedia compromise)Noun
(en noun)- But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
- a compromise of character or right
- I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.
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(compromis)- Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
- The controversy may easily be compromised .
- To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
- He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.
