Intervene vs Conspiracy - What's the difference?
intervene | conspiracy |
(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
* De Quincey
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.
The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
(legal) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
A group of ravens.
(linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
In legal|lang=en terms the difference between intervene and conspiracy
is that intervene is (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 while conspiracy is (legal) an agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.As a verb intervene
is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things.As a noun conspiracy is
the act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.intervene
English
Verb
- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
- (Abbott)
