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Invite vs Coordinate - What's the difference?

invite | coordinate |

As verbs the difference between invite and coordinate

is that invite is while coordinate is .

As a noun coordinate is

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As an adjective coordinate is

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invite

English

Verb

  • To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
  • We invited our friends round for dinner.
  • To request formally.
  • I invite you all to be seated.
  • To encourage.
  • I always invite criticism of my definitions.
    Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
  • * 1902 , Roosevelt,
  • The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
  • To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
  • * Milton
  • to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
  • * Dryden
  • shady groves, that easy sleep invite
  • * Cowper
  • There no delusive hope invites despair.

    Synonyms

    * (ask for the presence or participation of) ask out * (request formally) ask, beseech, entreat, request * (encourage) ask for, encourage, provoke

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) An invitation.
  • coordinate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * * co-ordinate

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of the same rank; equal.
  • * Law
  • whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co-ordinate powers presiding over each country

    Usage notes

    The usual pronunciation of ‘oo’ is /u?/ or /?/. The dieresis in the spelling emphasizes that the second o begins a separate syllable. However, the dieresis is becoming increasingly rare in US English typography, so the spelling coordinate predominates.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics, cartography) A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.
  • Something that is equal to another thing.
  • *
  • Verb

    (coordinat)
  • To synchronize (activities).
  • To match (objects, especially clothes).
  • Derived terms

    * coordination, co-ordination * coordinator, co-ordinator * coordinatize

    See also

    * coordinately, * coordinateness, * coordinative, * uncoordinated,

    Anagrams

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