What's the difference between agree and sympathize?

Agree


Definition:

  • (adv.) In good part; kindly.
  • (v. i.) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
  • (v. i.) To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
  • (v. i.) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
  • (v. i.) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
  • (v. i.) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.
  • (v. i.) To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.
  • (v. t.) To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.
  • (v. t.) To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
  • (3) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
  • (4) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
  • (5) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (6) She agreed with Amanda that "Madiba is for everyone.
  • (7) Salmonella Centre of Paris confirmed the antigenic structure and agreed with this designation.
  • (8) The common atoms of the [3Fe-4S] and [4Fe-4S] cores agree within 0.1 A; the three common cysteinyl S gamma ligand atoms agree within 0.25 A.
  • (9) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
  • (10) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (11) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (12) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
  • (13) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
  • (14) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (15) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
  • (16) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
  • (17) Non-essential Federal government services will remain closed until a budget to pay for them has been agreed.
  • (18) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
  • (19) It is generally agreed upon that ERT is fruitless in the patient with severe head trauma or when vital signs were absent at the scene of the injury.
  • (20) Surely Michael wasn't saying he agreed with what Blair is doing?

Sympathize


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
  • (v. i.) To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.
  • (v. i.) To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.
  • (v. t.) To experience together.
  • (v. t.) To ansew to; to correspond to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the cultures of mycoplasmas obtained from the eyes of human patients suffering from sympathetic ophthalmia, it was possible to produce the same symptoms in chickens as were described by the author in 1950 in sympathizing and sympathized human eyes, namely: torpid uveitis and papillitis, which dragged on for months, and affected not only the inoculated right eye, but also, after 3 weeks and more, the untouched left eye.
  • (2) The people who were persecuting him and his companions and his sympathizers.
  • (3) The children with hyperthermal convulsions showed an increase in the sympathic tone and hyperfunctional manifestations.
  • (4) One struggles to sympathize: the wealthy, like corporations, rarely pay the full burden of tax anyway.
  • (5) To detect sympathic lesions the blood pressure changes were observed as response to change in posture (Schellong-Test).
  • (6) Psychological motivations, reasons why human nature is what it is, principles by which we may 'explain', understand, sympathize, or empathize with other human beings--and ourselves--what a variety of possible principles has been offered by philosophers and psychologists!
  • (7) These data permit to consider that such changes take place in the faces of patients with ganglionitis of the upper cervical sympathic node.
  • (8) Other commentators, whether or not they sympathized with Fox’s world view, felt that the level of violence qualified as terrorism, whatever the motivation for it.
  • (9) Cliven Bundy, the last remaining cattleman in southern Nevada, mobilized hundreds of sympathizers on Saturday to his "range war" in Bunkerville, Nevada, after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rounded-up nearly 400 of his cows which were grazing on protected land.
  • (10) Yemen’s internal turmoil had long proven amenable to al-Qaida sympathizers (the USS Cole was bombed in a Yemeni port in 2000), and Anwar al-Awlaki’s efforts there after 2007 boosted AQAP’s profile.
  • (11) Morales remained at large, a symbol of an era when violent leftist groups sowed fear and found sympathizers in the US and Latin America, and when bombs and hijackings were not uncommon dangers.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pro-Russian sympathizers in Crimea.
  • (13) To determine whether Haemophilus influenzae could be a factor in human atopy its effects were studied on the (para-)Sympathic Cyclic nucleotide-histamine axis in rats.
  • (14) These pathologic events are in accord with previously reported increases in myocardial sympathic nerve activity.
  • (15) There was a sentiment that we’re not just fighting for workers, we’re fighting back against someone who actively wants to destroy our community.” In one of the union’s Spanish-language radio ads , a man representing Trump Hotel employees says: “Our work helps make America a great country … How unfortunate that we have to say what the whole world already knows: no one works harder, no one loves their families more, no one sacrifices more than us.” In a slickly produced video of the first rally , more than 1,000 people, including Trump Hotel employees and their union sympathizers, marched to the hotel property carrying signs and megaphones.
  • (16) Urinary noradrenaline excretion per animal (24-h) showed a high sympathic nervous tone in both sham and UN rats.
  • (17) The paper is concerned with a clinical study of 9 patients where ganglionitis of the upper cervical sympathic node proceeded with an atrophy of the soft tissues in the form of facial hemiatrophy.
  • (18) On the basis of studies carried out by chronic experiments in dogs the authors noted, by clinical, chemical, radiological and histological methods, that the chemical sclerosis of the gastric mucosa performed with a sterile, fresh hypertonic solution of glucose at 60%, injected in the sub-mucosa, represents an intervention which is:--physiological, since the sclero-distrophy is achieved of the acid-secreting glands and "targeted" intra-gastric vago-sympathic denervation, while the storage function of the stomach is maintained;--feasible, since it can be easily performed from the technical view point, without hemorrhagic, perforative intra-operatory risks or hepato-renal toxicity;--fiable, since it was constantly accompanied by good clinical and functional results.
  • (19) The cause may be a postoperative imbalance between the sympathic and parasympathic innervation of the distal colon.
  • (20) Studies have suggested that early enucleation of a blind exciting eye can improve the prognosis for the sympathizing eye.