Accumulate vs Concatenate - What's the difference?
accumulate | concatenate |
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 join or link together, as though in a chain.
* 2003 , Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason , (Penguin 2004), page 182)
Computer instruction to join two strings together.
As verbs the difference between accumulate and concatenate
is that accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass while concatenate is to join or link together, as though in a chain.As an adjective accumulate
is (poetic|rare) collected; accumulated.accumulate
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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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* * ----concatenate
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(Wikipedia)Verb
(concatenat)- Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion , the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.
- Concatenating "Man" with " is mortal" gives "Man is mortal"
- The Unix program is used to concatenate and display files. Its name comes from the word catenate.