Accumulate vs Amalgamate - What's the difference?
accumulate | amalgamate |
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
* Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
* Burke
To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
(mathematics) To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
In lang=en terms the difference between accumulate and amalgamate
is that accumulate is to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly while amalgamate is to merge, to combine, to blend, to join.As verbs the difference between accumulate and amalgamate
is that accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass while amalgamate is to merge, to combine, to blend, to join.As adjectives the difference between accumulate and amalgamate
is that accumulate is (poetic|rare) collected; accumulated while amalgamate is coalesced; united; combined.accumulate
English
Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
Synonyms
* collect * pile up * store * amass * gather * aggregate * heap together * hoard * proliferateAdjective
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* * ----amalgamate
English
Verb
(amalgamat)- to amalgamate''' two races; to '''amalgamate one race with another
- Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.