Intervene vs Act - What's the difference?
intervene | act |
(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
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To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened (i.e. between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
(legal) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
A certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the (term).
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In lang=en terms the difference between intervene and act
is that intervene is to interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action while act is to feign.As verbs the difference between intervene and act
is that intervene is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things while act is to do something.As a noun act is
(countable) something done, a deed.intervene
English
Verb
- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
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