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Participate vs Conduce - What's the difference?

participate | conduce |

As verbs the difference between participate and conduce

is that participate is to join in, to take part, to involve oneself ({{term|in}} something) while conduce is to contribute or lead to a specific result.

As an adjective participate

is acting in common; participating.

participate

English

Verb

(participat)
  • To join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something).
  • (obsolete) To share, share in (something).
  • * 1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , I:
  • they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup [...].
  • (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:
  • 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

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Acting in common; participating.
  • * 1608 , , I. i. 101:
  • And, mutually participate , did minister / Unto the appetite and affection common / Of the whole body.

    conduce

    English

    Verb

    (conduc)
  • To contribute or lead to a specific result.
  • * Macaulay
  • He was sensible how much such a union would conduce to the happiness of both.
  • * , chapter=19
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare.}}
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 85:
  • There was thus a strong tendency to assume that obedience to God's commandments could conduce to prosperity and safety.
  • * 2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 343:
  • Anecdotes aside, many historians are skeptical that trade, as a general rule, conduces to peace.