different between confederate vs federate

English

Alternative forms

• confœderate (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (noun, adjective) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?d???t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?d??e?t/

Noun

confederate (plural confederates)

1. A member of a confederacy.
2. An accomplice in a plot.
3. (psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a "stooge").

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Adjective

confederate (comparative more confederate, superlative most confederate)

1. of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
2. banded together; allied.

Quotations

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Youth's Antiphony, lines 11-12

  Hour after hour, remote from the world's throng,

  Work, contest, fame, all life's confederate pleas

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Verb

confederate (third-person singular simple present confederates, present participle confederating, simple past and past participle confederated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To combine in a confederacy.

Italian

Adjective

confederate

1. feminine plural of confederato

Noun

confederate f pl

1. plural of confederata

Verb

confederate

1. second-person plural present indicative of confederare
2. second-person plural imperative of confederare
3. feminine plural of confederato

English

Alternative forms

• fœderate (archaic)

Adjective

federate (not comparable)

1. Federated, united in an alliance or federation.

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Noun

federate (plural federates)

1. A member of a federation.
   • But I do not admit that there is an opportunity for such a choice (whatever Baldus and Romanus may do) against one of two federates to the advantage of the other. 'If he cannot aid one without injury to the other, it is better not to help the one than to do harm to the other', as the words of Ambrose run; and that is the sense of the law and the rule which rates the avoidance of harm above the consideration of gain. What if, in order to benefit one federate, it is necessary to wrong the other doubly ? If two brothers who are lords of a feudal subject wage war upon each other, the vassal is bound to aid neither of them, since they mutually oppose each other, says Baldus. And allies mutually interfere with one another, as happens in other cases, which Romanus notes. — Alberico Gentili, De iure belli libri tres, numéro 16, volume 2, 1964
2. In computer simulation, a system participating in a collective simulation, particularly within the context of the HLA (High Level Architecture) standard.
   • A Federate (Application) can be defined as an application that implements or conforms to the HLA standard. — Okan Topçu, Umut Durak, Halit O?uztüzün, Distributed Simulation: A Model Driven Engineering Approach, 2016

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Verb

federate (third-person singular simple present federates, present participle federating, simple past and past participle federated)

1. To unite in a federation.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “federate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• defeater, redefeat

Italian

Adjective

federate

1. feminine plural of federato

Verb

federate

1. second-person plural present indicative of federare
2. second-person plural imperative of federare
3. feminine plural of federato