Perplex vs Affiliate - What's the difference?
perplex | affiliate |
To cause to feel baffled; to .
To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated.
* John Locke
(obsolete) To plague; to vex; to torment.
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 perplex and affiliate
is that perplex is to involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated 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 perplex and affiliate
is that perplex is to cause to feel baffled; to 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 perplex
is (obsolete) intricate; difficult.As a noun affiliate is
someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.perplex
English
Verb
(es)- What was thought obscure, perplexed , and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view.
- (Glanvill)
Synonyms
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* * *affiliate
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?
