different between affiliate vs correlate

English

Etymology

From Late Latin adfiliare, affiliare (“to adopt as son”), from Latin ad + filius (“son”): compare French affilier.

Pronunciation

Noun:

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??f?l.i.et/

Verb

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??f?l.i.e?t/

Noun

affiliate (plural affiliates)

1. Someone or something, especially, a television station, that is associated with a larger, related organization, such as a television network; a member of a group of associated things.

   Our local TV channel is an affiliate of NBC.

Translations

Verb

affiliate (third-person singular simple present affiliates, present participle affiliating, simple past and past participle affiliated)

1. (transitive) To adopt; to receive into a family as one's offspring
2. (transitive) to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
   • I. Taylor

     Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?

3. (transitive, said of an illegitimate child) To fix the paternity of

   to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another

4. (transitive) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.
   • H. Spencer

     How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?

5. (intransitive, followed by "to" or "with") To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.

Derived terms

• affiliation

Translations

Italian

Verb

affiliate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of affilare
2. second-person plural present indicative of affiliare
3. second-person plural imperative of affiliare
4. second-person plural present subjunctive of affiliare
5. feminine plural of affiliato

English

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???le?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k???le?t/, /?k???le?t/
• (noun)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???l?t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k???l?t/, /?k???l?t/

Verb

correlate (third-person singular simple present correlates, present participle correlating, simple past and past participle correlated)

1. (transitive) To compare things and bring them into a relation having corresponding characteristics
2. (intransitive) To be related by a correlation
   • 1871, Edward Burnett Tylor, Primitive Culture

     Doctrine and worship correlate as theory and practice.

Translations

Noun

correlate (plural correlates)

1. Either of a pair of things related by a correlation; a correlative.

Anagrams

• coral tree

Italian

Verb

correlate

1. second-person plural present indicative of correlare
2. second-person plural imperative of correlare
3. feminine plural of correlato