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Unitive vs Unitize - What's the difference?

unitive | unitize |

As an adjective unitive

is of, causing, or involving unity or union.

As a verb unitize is

to manage as a unit.

unitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, causing, or involving unity or union.
  • * 1986 , Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer, the Devil in the Middle Ages , page 290:
    • The mystics' fundamental vision was unitive : all things, including sinful creatures, are united with God.
  • * 2003 , Albert Joseph Mary Shamon, Firepower Through Confirmation , page 13:
    • Starting with this principle, established by God, namely that sex must always be the expression of a love that is unitive (till death) and procreative (opened to life), we can arrive at a simple Sexual Ethics primer.
  • * 2009 , David Gershon, Social change 2.0: a blueprint for reinventing our world :
    • It was unitive in that it directly asked each person to go beyond that which separates him or her from other people.

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    unitize

    English

    Verb

  • To manage as a unit
  • * 2002 , Eric Brousseau, Jean-Michel Glachant, The Economics of Contracts: Theories and Applications , page 146
    • This notion is illustrated empirically by the desire among oil producing firms to unitize oil fields early to avoid the potentially large losses of common-pool extraction.
  • To convert, package, or organize into one or more units
  • * a''. 1893 , Henry Ward Beecher, ''The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth , page 303
    • At any rate the general exterior is the same. And though we may attach shades of difference to them, and they may work themselves out in the final result, there are enough points of agreement to make men cohere; to unitize them.
  • * 1997 , Martin Stopford, Maritime Economics , page 340
    • The container era 1966-95: The solution was to unitize general cargo. Standardizing the cargo unit allowed liner companies to invest in mechanized systems […].
  • * 1998 , James A. Tompkins, Jerry D. Smith, The Warehouse Management Handbook , page 771
    • Pass-through stretch wrappers are used to unitize loads at high speeds.
  • * 1999 , Ziva Kunda, Social Cognition: Making Sense of People , page 80
    • In contrast, in social interactions it is often not obvious how to unitize events or how to score them. What, for example, constitutes a unit of friendliness?