What's the difference between contemplate and participate?

Contemplate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.
  • (v. t.) To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.
  • (v. i.) To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (2) I did not - do not - quite understand how some are able to contemplate his anti-semitism with indifference.
  • (3) The algorithms involved are simple and a microprocessor-based automatic PCG analysis system using the proposed technique is being contemplated.
  • (4) It should also be contemplated, as an alternative to elective cesarean section for a transverse lie or breech presentation of the second fetus.
  • (5) It won’t happen suddenly, but the most likely outcome for European social democracy is the one being secretly contemplated on the Labour backbenches: a fusion with liberalised conservatism.
  • (6) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
  • (7) The EU could not contemplate Turkey joining at some point in the future with free movement in its current form.
  • (8) Women with hereditary telangiectasia contemplating pregnancy should be screened for the presence of PAVM to anticipate complications.
  • (9) More than once, I have seen him stop in front of a slide with a graph on it, and become so engaged in contemplation of a particular data point that he grew oblivious of the audience.
  • (10) That is an awkward, indeed risky, time to be contemplating takeoff.
  • (11) Any action to restrict travel would force The Trump Organisation to immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom.
  • (12) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (13) Adult subjects (N = 866) were classified into five stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, action, maintenance, and relapse.
  • (14) Surgical treatment was carried out without the aid of cardiopulmonary by-pass, although this had been contemplated.
  • (15) As Johanna Konta contemplates the next stage of her wide-reaching tennis journey and a possible place in the fourth round of the US Open, she recalls in a quiet moment how it all started, and how she might never have played the game at all but for the fact there were tennis courts next to her school.
  • (16) I was left to contemplate my crime: I had not applied for permission (which I knew I would be refused) to visit this village.
  • (17) Lillian, a pensioner who has lived in Enschede most of her life, was also contemplating a vote for the SP.
  • (18) Meanwhile defence minister David Johnston says the intelligence cooperation between the Five Eyes partners – the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada – has achieved too much to “ even contemplate a backward step ”.
  • (19) An interesting contribution to the debate about the rules the intelligence services might use was made by the former head of GCHQ, Sir David Omand , who recently drafted a checklist of criteria that anyone in his former trade contemplating invasions of privacy should ask themselves.
  • (20) The association of a heart defect with ventricular hypertrophy, or the coexistence of several associated accessory pathways prevents such correlation and makes it imperative to carry out intracavitary investigation and epicardial mapping to localise the accessory pathway if surgery is contemplated.

Participate


Definition:

  • (a.) Acting in common; participating.
  • (v. i.) To have a share in common with others; to take a part; to partake; -- followed by in, formely by of; as, to participate in a debate.
  • (v. t.) To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of.
  • (v. t.) To impart, or give, or share of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
  • (2) Sperm specimens were obtained from 13 men participating in our in vitro fertilization program.
  • (3) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
  • (4) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
  • (5) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (6) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (8) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
  • (9) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
  • (10) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
  • (11) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
  • (12) Furthermore, there is experimental evidence for C5a participation in thromboxane production.
  • (13) An attempt was made to elucidate possible participation of low molecular weight nuclear RNA's (LMWN RNA's) in the transcription process.
  • (14) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
  • (15) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
  • (16) To evaluate the first full year of operation of the rural registrar scheme by comparing the educational activities undertaken by the participating rural general practitioners with those undertaken in the previous year.
  • (17) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
  • (18) The authors studied 84 randomly selected participants who live in retirement communities to discover factors leading to successful completion of a wellness enhancing program.
  • (19) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
  • (20) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .