Sequester vs Seize - What's the difference?
sequester | seize |
To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
* Hooker
To separate in order to store.
To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
* Francis Bacon
(chemistry) To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound
(legal) To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
* South
(transitive, US, politics, legal) To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
To seize and hold enemy property.
To withdraw; to retire.
* Milton
To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
sequestration; separation
(legal) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee.
(medicine) A sequestrum.
(Webster 1913)
to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture
to take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance)
to take possession of (by force, law etc.)
to have a sudden and powerful effect upon
(nautical) to bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line
(obsolete) to fasten, fix
to lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon)
to have a seizure
* 2012 , Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician
to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up
(UK) to submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
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Seize is a synonym of sequester.
In intransitive terms the difference between sequester and seize
is that sequester is to withdraw; to retire while seize is to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize upAs verbs the difference between sequester and seize
is that sequester is to separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw while seize is to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.As a noun sequester
is sequestration; separation.sequester
English
Verb
(en verb)- The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
- when men most sequester themselves from action
- The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO2 emissions.
- I had wholly sequestered my civil affairss.
- It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
- The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
- to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
Synonyms
* segregateNoun
(en noun)- (Bouvier)
seize
English
Verb
(seiz)- to seize smuggled goods
- to seize a ship after libeling
- a panic seized the crowd
- a fever seized him
- to seize two fish-hooks back to back
- to seize or stop one rope on to another
- to seize on the neck of a horse
- The text which had seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength abode upon him for more than a year.'' (''Southey , Bunyan, p. 21)
- Nearing what she thought was a climax, he started seizing and fell off her. Later, realizing he was dead, she became alarmed and dragged the body to his vehicle to make it look like he had died in his truck.
- Rust caused the engine to seize , never to run again.