What's the difference between concatenate and conflate?

Concatenate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Through concatenation, autocovariance for periodicity identification becomes possible.
  • (2) Recent data are cited for the proposition that these changes constitute a closed pathogenetic concatenation creating a vicious circle.
  • (3) The model consists of a concatenation of modules, one for each anatomical section of the periphery.
  • (4) These studies revealed that biological activity was sensitive to both the identity of the concatenating atoms and the pattern of ring substitution.
  • (5) Ligation of the blunt end to high molecular weight target DNA proceeds efficiently and there is no tandem concatenation of the adaptor.
  • (6) Reintroduction of this DNA into mammalian cells as a concatenated phage clone gave rise to dicentric chromosomes which gave rise to a new, stable, chromosome.
  • (7) Cows with coliform mastitis showed, in addition to fever, tachycardia and ruminal stasis and a concatenation of nonspecific responses, such as neutrophylic leukopenia followed by leukocytosis, lymphopenia, hypocalcaemia, hypoferraemia, hypozincaemia, and hypercupremia, and changes in the concentration of certain serum proteins.
  • (8) This enhancement of expression can be competed in vivo by concatenated double-stranded oligonucleotides, indicating that protein-DNA binding is a requisite for enhancer activity.
  • (9) The oscillatory interneurones are connected both intra- and interganglionically to form a topologically complex intersegmental network of concatenated ring circuits that possess the feature of recurrent cyclic inhibition.
  • (10) The consequential errors led to (a) an injudicious imposition of 'objectivity' at all levels of allocation, (b) an unjustified insistence that the same method be used at each administrative level in an additive and transitive manner, (c) the exclusion of general practitioner services from their considerations, (d) a failure to delineate those decisions which are in fact political decisions, thus to concatenate them, inappropriately, with technical and professional issues.
  • (11) Furthermore, we observed that concatenated Pit-1 binding sites were able to confer cAMP responsiveness to the thymidine kinase promoter in GC cells.
  • (12) However, the number of copies of the exogenous DNA sequences retained per average genome in postmetamorphic juveniles was usually less than 0.1 (range 0.05-50), and genome blot hybridizations indicate that these sequences are organized as integrated, randomly oriented, end-to-end molecular concatenates.
  • (13) It has been shown before (Part I) that covariances or coincidences in the signal activity of a neural net can be used in the construction of a simultaneous functional order in which a modality is represented as a concatenation of districts with a lattice structure.
  • (14) This finding was seen as consistent with "continuous" correction of movement errors and as contrary to the suggestion that infant movements are concatenations of ballistic movement units whose boundaries are marked by troughs in the speed profile.
  • (15) A concatenated DNA fragment containing a five-repeat binding site was used for DNase I footprinting.
  • (16) Thus, the patient's oral reading of a sentence is not a concatenation of isolated words, but depends on an implicit, context-sensitive analysis.
  • (17) For statistical analysis the night studies of each subject were concatenated.
  • (18) These include the uptake of the donor DNA by the recipient cells, the transport of the DNA to the nucleus, transient expression prior to integration into the host cell genome, concatenation and integration of the transfected DNA into the host cell genome and finally the stable expression of the integrated genes (2,3).
  • (19) In contrast, most linearly concatenated DNA molecules (derived from end-to-end joining of microinjected monomeric plasmid DNA) underwent at least two rounds of DNA replication during this same period.
  • (20) We have constructed an artificial variant of the proenkephalin gene by concatenation of synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (oligo) coding for Met-enkephalin preceded by two arginines.

Conflate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
  • (2) Henry IV Phyllida Lloyd follows her all-female production of Julius Caesar with another single-sex take on a conflated version of the two parts of Shakespeare’s greatest history play.
  • (3) But the demise of white supremacy does not mean the end of white people, just of their supremacy; given the widespread conflation of the two by discomfited white people, perhaps we do need a month to teach us all the difference.
  • (4) So when you give them that, of course they’re going to fund you and give you resources and connect you to the right people.” That there are imams on the taskforce is also a concern to imam Hassan Jaamici Mohamud, who believes it conflates church and state, and could cause distrust among the congregations.
  • (5) News editors have conflated on-demand with live – and in doing so have added costs for very little audience benefit.
  • (6) "I see no conflation of public and private lives here.
  • (7) They might be valid topics for philosophy or religion classes, UCS argues, but when conflated with science make it harder for people to trust scientists.
  • (8) Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler, objected to comparisons of Volkswagen and Fiat Chrysler, suggesting that conflating the two was evidence of a different kind of unlawful emission: Anyone who compares Fiat to VW “is smoking illegal material,” Marchionne told Reuters.
  • (9) "We should, of course, listen to the interests associated with us, and the assortment of pressure groups banging on our door but never conflate their noise, which with social media can seem deafening, with public opinion or let them decide policy.
  • (10) Propaganda that conflates antisemitism with opposition to Israel has also played a role.
  • (11) Read more Pavan Sukhdev, the environmental economist who led a global study on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity , believes this is a fundamental misreading of the concept which conflates placing a value on something with putting a price tag on it.
  • (12) Mr Browne said: "You do what you consistently do in relation to the debates around immigration and asylum which is that you conflate the two issues.
  • (13) This, conflated with a kind of turbo-Darwinism, made eugenics a common feature of the national debate, and it was not at all unusual for judges and politicians and other notables to wish, out loud, like Leslie Scott, the solicitor general, that "by a stroke of the pen it could be ordained that from today onwards no mental defective should be allowed to breed".
  • (14) To compete, organisations oversell the vulnerability of their beneficiaries while conflating one-off interventions with transforming a life.
  • (15) And even if one decides to stretch this term to include all animals, it cannot be done without conflating what I believe to be important differences in the moral standing of humans and animals.
  • (16) Indulging the Farageist conflation of Eastern migrants with scrounging and criminality was a very efficient way to undo any sense of gratitude or solidarity that was available in Bucharest or Warsaw.
  • (17) • This article was amended on 26 September to correct a conflation of Sid Caesar and Ed Sullivan.
  • (18) In his piece, Professor Beresford conflates a large number of disparate theories and concepts, at the same time as seeming to misrepresent the core argument made by Kids Company that early abuse or neglect can damage or disrupt the brains of those subjected to such experiences.
  • (19) At best, the government is conflating poverty with its many consequences.
  • (20) Finally, it is argued that a test of the minimum principle is necessarily conflated with two other hypotheses, one concerning the metric of simplicity and one concerning the task conception of the experimental subjects.

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