What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Rally vs Conjoin - What's the difference?

rally | conjoin |

As verbs the difference between rally and conjoin

is that rally is to collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite or rally can be to tease; to chaff good-humouredly while conjoin is to join together; to unite; to combine.

As a noun rally

is a demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause or rally can be good-humoured raillery.

rally

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) ralier ((etyl) rallier), from (etyl) prefix .

Noun

(rallies)
  • A demonstration; an event where people gather together to protest for or against a given cause
  • (squash, table tennis, tennis, badminton) A sequence of strokes between serving]] and [[score, scoring a point.
  • (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
  • (business, trading) A recovery after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
    • Hyponyms
    * (increase in value) (l)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  • To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
  • * Dryden
    • The Grecians rally , and their powers unite.
  • * Tillotson
    • Innumerable parts of matter chanced just then to rally together, and to form themselves into this new world.
  • To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
  • (business, trading) To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
    • Synonyms
    * (l) * (increase in value) (l), (l)
    Antonyms
    * (increase in value) (l)
    Derived terms
    * rallying point

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) railler. See .

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
  • * Addison
    • Honeycomb raillies me upon a country life.
  • * Gay
    • Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain / Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Good-humoured raillery.

    • References

    * ----

    conjoin

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To join together; to unite; to combine.
    • They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.
  • To marry.
    • I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.
  • (grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
  • (mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
  • To unite, to join, to league.
  • *1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVI, ''St. Edmund
    • And the Body of one Dead; — a temple where the Hero-soul once was and now is not: Oh, all mystery, all pity, all mute awe and wonder; Supernaturalism brought home to the very dullest; Eternity laid open, and the nether Darkness and the upper Light-Kingdoms; — do conjoin there, or exist nowhere!

    Derived terms

    * conjoined twin * conjoiner * conjoint * conjointly

    Related terms

    * conjunction * conjunctiva * conjunctive

    External links

    * Conjoin @ The Internet Grammar of English