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Orchestrate vs Oversee - What's the difference?

orchestrate | oversee |

As verbs the difference between orchestrate and oversee

is that orchestrate is to arrange or score music for performance by an orchestra while oversee is (literally) to survey, look at something in a wide angle.

orchestrate

English

Verb

(orchestrat)
  • To arrange or score music for performance by an orchestra.
  • To compose or arrange orchestral music for a dramatic performance.
  • Sergio Leone orchestrated "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
  • To arrange or direct diverse elements to achieve a desired effect
  • Anagrams

    * English transitive verbs ----

    oversee

    English

    Verb

    (transitive)
  • (literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
  • (figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
  • It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.
  • To inspect, examine
  • Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
  • (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
  • * , II.ix:
  • Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee .
  • To observe secretly or unintentionally.
  • Derived terms

    * overseer * oversight

    See also

    * overlook * overwatch