What's the difference between conflate and elide?

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.

Elide


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.
  • (v. t.) To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The truth is a large part of the media today not merely elides the two but does so now as a matter of course."
  • (2) Arguing that one drug should be legalised while others not seems to elide this question of public policy.
  • (3) For one thing, they assume that Euroscepticism elides into far-right extremism, when sometimes it does and sometimes it does not.
  • (4) The musical history of multi-racial Britain is usually elided to omit the 50s, jumping to the Jamaican insurgency of the 60s, but in London at least there was a vibrant scene, ranging from the big band swing of Jamaica's Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson to the steel band of Trinidadian Russ Henderson.
  • (5) We studied the fine structure of the envelope of Escherichia coli auxotroph K1060 after the cells were grown in the presence of one of the following fatty acids; oleic, palmitelaidic, or elidic acid.
  • (6) Every presidential aspirant issues that boilerplate – as it elides an explanation of what the candidate thinks is worth fighting for – but Clinton’s long public record, which she uses as a selling point against Trump, gives reason to doubt it.
  • (7) And couldn't poor Brod see that in eliding Lehár's jolly and farcical operetta with Wagner's crushing toten lieder , Kafka manages in a single aside to undermine the entire airy and castellated edifice of late German romanticism?
  • (8) The mistake here is to elide styles of play that are boring (Ivan Lendl then, Milos Raonic now) with personal qualities that might be boring, but have nothing to do with tennis.
  • (9) It's a densely packed insult, in which Grayling manages not only to elide criminality with stupidity, but also takes a difficult background as a reason to disregard a person's judgment, and most strikingly, uses the fact that someone has been arrested as an indication that they are probably guilty.
  • (10) So the focus for investigation has slipped from extremism to "an awareness of the risks associated with extremism" in the elided phrase now used by Ofsted inspectors to condemn the schools most heavily involved, such as Park View academy.
  • (11) It is at once both public and deeply private , facilitating both an openness and vulnerability which elide other forums.
  • (12) That's hardly a landslide, even if you elide Euroscepticism and the far right together, which I do not.
  • (13) Compared to What also acknowledges but quickly elides a scandal from early in his career where Frank had a relationship with a man he hired, first for sex and later as his driver, who ran a prostitution ring from Frank’s apartment .
  • (14) What has happened of course is that hacking has been elided with a different set of criticisms of the press, which is that it too enthusiastically and brutally invades the privacy of the innocent, that it engages in character assassination too unthinkingly, and that it is slow and mean-spirited in correcting mistakes.
  • (15) When you are a white, socially powerful person travelling overseas and you're describing the people you meet in simplistic terms, you elide the reality of their lives and turn them into Disney sideshow attractions there for your entertainment, rather than human beings going about their daily lives.
  • (16) Frischmann was part of a strange ménage à trois that elided into Britpop - itself one of the most peculiar cultural episodes of recent times.
  • (17) Then, while we are distracted by visions of garrulous Roman senators, he casually elides philosophy with all expertise and then all expertise with the reading of chicken entrails.
  • (18) Obama effectively offered to trade an end to the Iraq war for continuation of the war on terrorism, something both his liberal supporters and conservative critics elided as it fit neither the picture of Obama the liberal savior or Obama the naive peacenik.
  • (19) "Causing offence" is so easily elided into inciting hatred, then inciting violence, then to being the cause of actual violence.
  • (20) Put simply this country was not ceded by treaty and the high court’s decision in Mabo elides the distinction between conquered and settled.