Participate vs Affiliate - What's the difference?
participate | affiliate |
To join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something).
(obsolete) To share, share in (something).
* 1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , I:
(obsolete) To share (something) (with) others; to transfer (something) (to) or (unto) others.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , II:
(obsolete) Acting in common; participating.
* 1608 , , I. i. 101:
Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.
To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
* I. Taylor
To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child.
To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
* H. Spencer
To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to'' or ''with .
In lang=en terms the difference between participate and affiliate
is that participate is to join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something) while affiliate is to attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc; — followed by to'' or ''with .As verbs the difference between participate and affiliate
is that participate is to join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something) while affiliate is to adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.As an adjective participate
is (obsolete) acting in common; participating.As a noun affiliate is
someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.participate
English
Verb
(participat)- they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup [...].
- Make the Earth [...] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star.
Adjective
(-)- And, mutually participate , did minister / Unto the appetite and affection common / Of the whole body.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The local channel was an affiliate of a national network.
Verb
(affiliat)- Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?
- to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another
- How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?
