English Dictionary

conflate

/kənˈfleɪt/

verb

To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity. / To mix together different elements.

Many people conflate the terms 'weather' and 'climate'.

意味（1）

To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.

意味（2）

To mix together different elements.

意味（3）

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

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