different between amalgam vs conflate

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin amalgama (“mercury alloy”), from Arabic ???????????? (al-mal?am, “emollient poultice or unguent for sores”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), from ??????? (maláss?, “to soften”), from ??????? (malakós, “soft”). Doublet of malagma. For the verb, compare French amalgamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæl.??m/
• Hyphenation: a?mal?gam

Noun

amalgam (countable and uncountable, plural amalgams)

1. (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
2. A combination of different things.
3. One of the ingredients in an alloy.

Synonyms

• alloy, blend, combo, compound, conglomerate, mixture

Related terms

• amalgamate
• amalgamation

Translations

Verb

amalgam (third-person singular simple present amalgams, present participle amalgaming, simple past and past participle amalgamed)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To amalgamate.
   • a. 1691, Robert Boyle, An Essay on the Porousness of Solid Bodies

     I had once occasion to distill in a small retort some gold amalgamed with such a fine and subtile mercur

   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     gold t'amalgam with some six of mercury

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “amalgam”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Amalgam”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “amalgam”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• “amalgam”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• malagma

Romanian

Etymology

From French amalgame, from Latin amalgama.

Noun

amalgam n (plural amalgame)

1. amalgam

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am?l?a?m/
• Hyphenation: a?mal?gam

Noun

amàlg?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. amalgam

Declension

Swedish

Noun

amalgam n

1. amalgam

Declension

English

Etymology

Attested since 1541: borrowed from Latin c?nfl?tus, from c?nfl? (“fuse, melt, or blow together”); c?n (“with, together”) + fl? (“blow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?fle?t/, /k?n?fle?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k?n?fle?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

conflate (third-person singular simple present conflates, present participle conflating, simple past and past participle conflated)

1. To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.

   Synonyms: fuse, meld

2. To mix together different elements.

   Synonyms: mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, merge, amalgamate

3. (by extension) To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.

   Synonyms: confuse, mix up, lump together

Related terms

• conflation

Translations

Adjective

conflate (not comparable)

1. (biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
   • 1999, Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint:

     Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.

Noun

conflate (plural conflates)

1. (biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.

References

Anagrams

• falconet, lactofen

Latin

Verb

c?nfl?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?nfl?