Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
conflate en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /kənˈfleɪt/ (US)
- (US) audio
- /kənˈfleɪt/ (UK)
- /kɒnˈfleɪt/ (UK)
Etymology
Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Meanings
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(not-comparable, qualifier:biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.
1999, Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint:
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conflate en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kənˈfleɪt/ (US)
- (US) audio
- /kənˈfleɪt/ (UK)
- /kɒnˈfleɪt/ (UK)
Etymology
Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Meanings
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(qualifier:biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
Forms
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conflate en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /kənˈfleɪt/ (US)
- (US) audio
- /kənˈfleɪt/ (UK)
- /kɒnˈfleɪt/ (UK)
Etymology
Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Meanings
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To combine or mix together.
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(broadly) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
But as Covid wore on, and all of this not-really-reading took on an ever more breathless quality, it became clear that we were being not confused but conflated, treated as one interchangeable Naomi.
2023, Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Penguin, →ISBN, page 39:Near-synonym: confuse
“Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”
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(broadly) To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.
But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.
2020 August 18, “Your big questions about race, answered”, in CNN:Climate skeptics have conflated the two for years, for example, pointing to cold winter weather as proof that global warming is a hoax, most likely to play on people’s confusion about the two.
2020 September 15, Brandon Miller and Judson Jones, “Climate is not weather: Trump continues to get the two conflated”, in CNN:But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones.
2018 June 25, Shan Wu, “The real story behind Trump’s immigration executive order”, in CNN:“We must stop conflating selectivity with excellence. We must stop correlating prestige with privilege,” he said.
2022 September 12, Deidre McPhillips, “Critiques mount around popular annual college rankings”, in CNN:
Forms
Deriveds
conflatable · conflation · unconflated · deconflation · deconflate · reconflate
Synonyms
flux · coalesce · lump together · mix up · meld · merge · commingle · blend · fuse · amalgamate · immix · mix
Translations (47)
sv förväxla (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · hu összeolvaszt (to mix together different elements) · ja 融合する (to mix together different elements) · de vermischen (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · ja 混同する (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · pt equiparar (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · cs smísit (to mix together different elements) · fr confondre (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · cmn 混合 (to mix together different elements) · uk плутати (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · ca confondre (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · hu összekombinál (to mix together different elements) · ja ごちゃ混ぜにする (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · hu összekever (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · it confondere (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · hu egybeolvaszt (to mix together different elements) · sv sammanfläta (to mix together different elements) · es asimilar (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · eo misdistingi (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · ro amesteca (to mix together different elements) · ro amalgama (to mix together different elements) · ja 一括りにする (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · fi sekoittaa (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · cs smíchat (to mix together different elements) · da forveksle (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · pt confundir (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · ja 一緒くたにする (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · ro confunda (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · uk змішувати (to mix together different elements) · hu összeollóz (to mix together different elements) · ja ごちゃにする (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · de versehentlich gleichsetzen (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · hu összetéveszt (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · de vermischen (to mix together different elements) · fi yhdistää (to mix together different elements) · es confundir (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · cs směšovat (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · fi sotkea (to mix together different elements) · uk зливати (to mix together different elements) · pt misturar (to mix together different elements) · fi sotkea (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · de verwechseln (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · ja ごちゃごちゃにする (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · cmn 混同 (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · ru пу́тать (to fail to properly distinguish things or keep them separate; mistakenly treat them as equivalent) · fi sekoittaa (to mix together different elements) · eo intermiksi (to mix together different elements)
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