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Participate vs Doorknock - What's the difference?

participate | doorknock |

As verbs the difference between participate and doorknock

is that participate is to join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something) while doorknock is (chiefly|australia|nz) to participate in a campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors; to knock on the door (of a house) during such a campaign.

As an adjective participate

is (obsolete) acting in common; participating.

As a noun doorknock is

(australia|nz) a campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.

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.

    Related terms

    * participant * participation * participative * participator * participatory * participial * participle

    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.

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    doorknock

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, NZ) A campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors, such as for a charity appeal.
  • * 1981 , Graham Jackson, Square Crib , page 98,
    • Sometimes they were raffles, mostly they were doorknocks'. I went on one of the ' doorknocks after Wendy talked me into it.
  • * 1995 , John Montague Gurney, N. E. Renton, Successful Clubs , page 53,
    • To run a doorknock' you need volunteer collectors — lots of them. But because there are so many ' doorknocks each year, collectors are overloaded and it is difficult to recruit new ones.
    So what is the answer?
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (chiefly, Australia, NZ) To participate in a campaign of going from house to house knocking on doors; to knock on the door (of a house) during such a campaign.
  • * 1979 , Fatma Dharamsi, et al., Community Project, Community Work And Caring For Children: A Community Project In An Inner City Local Authority , page 440,
    • During the doorknocking local residents had talked about other issues.
  • * 2007 , Philip Hughes, Alan Black, Peter Kaldor, Building Stronger Communities , page 156,
    • With some exceptions, doorknocking is likely to elicit a large number of small donations but relatively few large donations.
  • * 2007 , Robert Macklin, Kevin Rudd: The Biography , unnumbered page,
    • ‘He doorknocked' thirty-two thousand houses,’ Thérèse says. ‘I doorknocked with him at weekends. That?s one way to get fit, especially when every house that I ' doorknocked was high-set, but I took the formal period of the campaign off.’