conflateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Attested since 1541: from Latin cōnflātus, past passive participle of cōnflō (“fuse, kindle, blow together”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kənˈfleɪt/, /kɒnˈfleɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /kənˈfleɪt/
• 韻: -eɪt

動詞

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

1. To combine or mix together.

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

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

   Synonyms: confuse, mix up, lump together

   “Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”

3. (by extension) To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.
   • 2018 June 25, Shan Wu, “The real story behind Trump’s immigration executive order”, in CNN‎:

     But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones.

   • 2020 August 18, “Your big questions about race, answered”, in CNN‎:

     But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.

   • 2020 September 15, Brandon Miller and Judson Jones, “Climate is not weather: Trump continues to get the two conflated”, in CNN‎:

     Climate skeptics have conflated the two for years, for example, pointing to cold winter weather as proof that global warming is a hoax, most likely to play on people’s confusion about the two.

   • 2022 September 12, Deidre McPhillips, “Critiques mount around popular annual college rankings”, in CNN‎:

     “We must stop conflating selectivity with excellence. We must stop correlating prestige with privilege,” he said.

派生語

形容詞

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.

名詞

conflate (plural conflates)

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

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アナグラム

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