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Reconcile vs Reconnaissance - What's the difference?

reconcile | reconnaissance |

As a verb reconcile

is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.

As a noun reconnaissance is

the act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.

reconcile

English

(reconciliation)

Verb

(reconcil)
  • To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
    • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
  • To make things compatible or consistent.
    • to reconcile differences
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
  • * John Locke
    • The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
  • To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

    • Derived terms

    * reconciliation

    reconnaissance

    English

    (wikipedia reconnaissance)

    Alternative forms

    * recce (abbreviation) * recon (abbreviation)

    Noun

  • The act of scouting or exploring (especially military or medical) to gain information.
  • * 1973 , Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama
    • The third member, Sergeant Pieter Rousseau, had been with the back-up teams at the Hub; he was an expert on space reconnaissance instrumentation, but on this trip he would have to depend on his own eyes and a small portable telescope.

    Related terms

    * reconnoiter, reconnoitre ----