Crossword clues for conflate
conflate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conflate \Con*flate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Conflated; p. pr. & vb. n. Conflating.] [L. conflatus, p. p. of conflare to blow together; con- + flare to blow.]
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To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.
The State-General, created and conflated by the passionate effort of the whole nation.
--Carlyle. to ignore distinctions between, by treating two or more distinguishable objects or ideas as one; to confuse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
(context biblical criticism English) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text. n. (context biblical criticism English) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together. v
1 To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity. 2 To mix together different elements. 3 To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to treat (them) as equivalent.
WordNet
Usage examples of "conflate".
You can fuck around with masculinity and femininity by heightening them, by flattening them, by caricaturing them, by placing them ostentatiously in quotation marks, or by crossing or conflating them in ways that violently flout our usual expectations.
The diamond district conflated greed and piety, fast commerce and duplicity.
Over the past two thousand years, thanks to the invective of the various churches and more recently of the scientific community, magic has had to lie hidden in the West, practised in secret, persecuted in public whenever the inquisitors got wind of it, and because of that persecution what should be an organized body of philosophical thought and spiritual practice has become maimed and garbled, conflated in the popular mind with superstition, devil worship, and the tricks and silly stories of con men and hucksters.
In what I am watching, Time is conflated, as indeed it must be in any work of art.
She also conflates sex and gender—the way to portray someone as being of both sexes is to portray them in activities of both genders.
Britain’s chief of state gushed and bubbled and, editorially speaking, lifted his skirt over his head, to thank Bill Clinton and the whole of the United States (often conflating the two) for introducing him to the simple pleasures of bombing selected dictators and to leadership the American Way.
That is how it also controlled consciousness, sleep, and dreaming, by inflating and conflating the ventricular system.
The problems spring perhaps from conflating human history with evolutionary development.