What's the difference between conflate and entity?

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.

Entity


Definition:

  • (n.) A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
  • (2) Sinus lining cells give rise to a well defined entity of neoplasia which is proposed to be termed sinus lining cell reticulosarcoma.
  • (3) Epidermolytic PPK is a well delineated autosomal dominant entity, but no recessive form is known.
  • (4) Doctors, who once treated human body as an entity, are so specialized that none seems to know any more that the head bone is still indirectly connected to the great toe.
  • (5) Pancreatic ascites is a distinct clinical entity which should be differentiated from cirrhotic, tuberculous or malignant ascites.
  • (6) Purulent bronchitis appears to be a distinct, treatable entity in patients with HIV infection and may accompany bacterial pneumonia, bronchiectasis, and P carinii pneumonia.
  • (7) The recent identification among non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphomas of a high-grade malignancy entity of possible thymic origin and defined as lymphoblastic convoluted-cell lymphoma allowed the morphologic and radiological diagnosis of nine cases of this disease.
  • (8) There is no reason to describe deafness and deafmutism in an area with severe endemic goitre as a separate entity.
  • (9) This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that the majority of deaths attributed to presenile dementia and the majority of deaths from senile dementia are the result of the same disease entity.
  • (10) This condition is a clearly defined radiological and clinical entity.
  • (11) On radiographs, this entity usually presented as clusters of 1- to 3-mm plaques raised above the smooth and featureless duodenal mucosa; this was seen in 17 (68%) of 25 patients.
  • (12) Although these two destructive entities are completely different in many respects, they share a common denominator: the initial lesions are brought about by an aggregate of bacteria known as plaque.
  • (13) The literature on this uncommon syndrome was reviewed and it was found that there are an open prevalence of this entity in children younger than 15 years, as well as severe respiratory complications in affected patients.
  • (14) Autism is a heterogeneous disease entity containing different clinical subgroups, which do not manifest similar radiologic pictures.
  • (15) This appears to be a newly described entity, although it resembles a Becker's nevus without hypertrichosis or an typical café au lait spot.
  • (16) The familial association of epilepsy and cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL (P)) is analyzed assuming both entities share common genetic predisposing factors.
  • (17) Data in the literature reveal that two distinct entities do not exist, but that there is instead a continuous transition from low to normal values.
  • (18) Sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy is a distinct clinical entity, with ophthalmic involvement in 10% of patients.
  • (19) The histological examination of the biopsies taken during colonoscopy differentiated less clearly between these two entities than the macroscopic judgement by the endoscopist.
  • (20) The different entity of reversibility of bronchial obstruction is due to the various mechanisms intervening in different patients.