conflating
present participle ofconflate
单词 | conflating |
释义 | conflating present participle ofconflate conflate verb[T] uk/kənˈfleɪt/us/kənˈfleɪt/tocombinetwo or moreseparatethings,especiallypiecesoftext, toformawhole: She conflated the threeplaystoproduceafreshnewwork. Synonyms combine fuse meld merge Connecting and combining
Examplesofconflatingconflating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Now there is a danger here ofconflatingthese very distinct yet related goals. From theCambridge English Corpus We can create new partitions from old byconflatingblocks. From theCambridge English Corpus The child is not concerned because he trusts his pediatrician -conflatingthe pediatrician's role as clinician and scientist. From theCambridge English Corpus Another group of works aspires to the sublime rather than the ridiculous,conflatingthe exposed teeth of the singer with those of the rapt mystic. From theCambridge English Corpus Byconflatingtheir local concerns with a national emergency they portrayed their request for an official ban on emigration as a wartime necessity. From theCambridge English Corpus This fallacious implication relies onconflatingthe brain and the cortex. From theCambridge English Corpus In general, therefore, hateful speech does not preempt further speech, whereasconflatingpain and harm simply begs the question in favor of political regulation. From theCambridge English Corpus The fair-opportunity theory, inconflatingmoral blamelessness and legal innocence, fails to capture this nuance of the law. From theCambridge English Corpus Conflatingharm and humiliation can do this as well, while leaving unaddressed the fact that humiliation is subject to tests of reasonableness. From theCambridge English Corpus First, children might be overzealouslyconflatingtense and grammatical aspect into the same morphemes. From theCambridge English Corpus They breathed life into this label byconflatingthe state with the party, and party disloyalty with state treason. From theCambridge English Corpus However,conflatinginfinitude and finitude is not as simple as such a statement would lead one to believe for we now have several problems. From theCambridge English Corpus We examine only spousal care-givers to avoidconflatingthe outcomes for bereaved spouses with those of other bereaved care-givers. From theCambridge English Corpus Inconflatingthe prenasal and the main vowel systems and thus failing to recognize polysystemicity this account again fails to satisfy lexical minimality. From theCambridge English Corpus The particular potency of the concept derived from its utility forconflatingthe latter with the former. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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