Juxtapose vs Collocate - What's the difference?
juxtapose | collocate |
To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.
* 2006 , Scarnati, Chris, "We should follow New Jersey's lead on this one", YourCranberry :
(linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong'' collocates with ''tea .
To arrange or occur side by side. (rfex)
(obsolete) To set or place; to station.
* E. Hall
(obsolete) Set; placed.
As verbs the difference between juxtapose and collocate
is that juxtapose is to place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison while collocate is (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example strong collocates with tea.As a noun collocate is
a component word of a collocation.As an adjective collocate is
set; placed.juxtapose
English
Verb
(juxtapos)- "In juxtaposing the youth athletes of our grandparents' generation with those of the modern era, we're essentially comparing ."
collocate
English
Verb
(collocat)- to marshal and collocate in order his battalions
Adjective
(-)- (Francis Bacon)
