Participate
[pɑː'tɪsɪpeɪt] or [pɑr'tɪsə'pet]
Definition
(a.) Acting in common; participating.
(v. i.) To have a share in common with others; to take a part; to partake; -- followed by in, formely by of; as, to participate in a debate.
(v. t.) To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of.
(v. t.) To impart, or give, or share of.
Checker: Roderick
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Share, join_in, have_a_share,[See PARTAKE]
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Definition
v.i. to partake: to have a share.—v.t. to receive a part or share of.—n. Pé‹?prime;ticeps crim′inis one who although not present helps in any way the commission of a crime or who after the deed assists or hides the person who did it.—adjs. Partic′ipable capable of being participated in or shared; Partic′ipant participating: sharing.—n. a partaker.—adv. Partic′ipantly.—n. Participā′tion.—adj. Partic′ipātive capable of participating.—n. Partic′ipātor one who partakes with another: a sharer.
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Examples
- When Percy MacKaye pleads for pageants in which the people themselves participate, he offers an opportunity for expressing some of the lusts of the city in the form of an art. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But if interest is aroused, we begin to participate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The denizens of the forest cannot, of course, expect to participate in the refinements of the land of the Free. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I did not participate in these feelings; for to me the walls of a dungeon or a palace were alike hateful. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It would be ignoble of me not to participate in this action because of the accident of this message. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Acting upon this plan in our subsequent intercourse, he led me to wish to participate in that cultivation which graced his own intellect. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- One or two of the pensionnaires complained of headache, and in other respects seemed slightly to participate in Georgette's ailment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Nor have I been debarred, Though seas between us braid ha' roared, (BURNS) from participating in the intellectual feasts he has spread before us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But now all are participating in this. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Naturally the British imperialists wanted a subjugated Irish; naturally the English Liberals wanted a free, participating Irish. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In saying this, we are only repeating what was said previously about participating in a joint activity as the chief way of forming disposition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was then a Union victory, in which the Armies of the Tennessee and the Ohio both participated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But then, later, came this of Manolo Granero in which Juan Luis de la Rosa also participated. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The little dinners, the laughing and chatting, the music afterwards, delighted all who participated in these enjoyments. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In the battle of Chattanooga, troops from the Army of the Potomac, from the Army of the Tennessee, and from the Army of the Cumberland participated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The year 1147 saw a Second Crusade, in which both the Emperor Conrad III and King Louis of France participated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was changed; the tight-drawn cord that sounded so harshly was loosened, the moment that Idris participated in my knowledge of our real situation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The method of working at Menlo Park has already been described in these pages by those who participated. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In other cases, he really shares or participates in the common activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is truly educative in its effect in the degree in which an individual shares or participates in some conjoint activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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