Juxtapose vs Concatenate - What's the difference?
juxtapose | concatenate |
To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.
* 2006 , Scarnati, Chris, "We should follow New Jersey's lead on this one", YourCranberry :
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 juxtapose and concatenate
is that juxtapose is while concatenate is to join or link together, as though in a chain.juxtapose
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Verb
(juxtapos)- "In juxtaposing the youth athletes of our grandparents' generation with those of the modern era, we're essentially comparing ."
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.