Oversee vs Coordinate - What's the difference?
oversee | coordinate |
(literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
To inspect, examine
(obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
* , II.ix:
To observe secretly or unintentionally.
Of the same rank; equal.
* Law
(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.
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To synchronize (activities).
To match (objects, especially clothes).
As verbs the difference between oversee and coordinate
is that oversee is to survey, look at something in a wide angle while coordinate is to synchronize (activities).As an adjective coordinate is
of the same rank; equal.As a noun coordinate is
a number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.oversee
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Verb
(transitive)- It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.
- Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
- Thereat the Elfe did blush in priuitee, / And turnd his face away; but she the same / Dissembled faire, and faynd to ouersee .
Derived terms
* overseer * oversightSee also
* overlook * overwatchcoordinate
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Alternative forms
* * co-ordinateAdjective
(-)- whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many co-ordinate powers presiding over each country