different between affiliate vs pertaining

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??te?n??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??te?n??/
• Rhymes: -e?n
• Hyphenation: per?tain?ing

Verb

pertaining

1. present participle of pertain

Noun

pertaining (plural pertainings)

1. Something that pertains; an appurtenance.
   • 1869, Horace Bushnell, Women's suffrage: the reform against nature (page 90)

     When, I say, these things are duly considered as pertainings of a woman's lot, we might almost justify them in a riot against natural sexhood itself, if there were any thing to be gained by it.

Anagrams

• repainting