Conjugate vs Copulate - What's the difference?
conjugate | copulate |
(grammar) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
(rare) To join together, unite; to juxtapose.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 55:
*:The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.
(biology) To reproduce sexually as do some bacteria and algae, by exchanging or transferring DNA.
Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
(mathematics) (of a complex number ) A complex conjugate.
(mathematics) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
(mathematics) An explementary angle.
(grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
* Archbishop Bramhall
United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
(botany) In single pairs; coupled.
(chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
(grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
(math) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
To engage in sexual intercourse.
(obsolete) Joined; associated; coupled.
(grammar) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
In grammar terms the difference between conjugate and copulate
is that conjugate is agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words while copulate is joining subject and predicate; copulative.As verbs the difference between conjugate and copulate
is that conjugate is to inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses while copulate is to engage in sexual intercourse.As adjectives the difference between conjugate and copulate
is that conjugate is united in pairs; yoked together; coupled while copulate is joined; associated; coupled.As a noun conjugate
is any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.conjugate
English
Verb
(conjugat)- In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
Hypernyms
* inflectSee also
* declineNoun
(en noun)- We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.
Adjective
(-)copulate
English
Verb
(copulat)Synonyms
* fuck, make love, screw, swive, bang, sleep together * See alsoAdjective
(-)- (Francis Bacon)