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reconcile

verb
/ˈɹɛkənsaɪl/UK/ˈɹɛkənˌsaɪl/CA/ˈɹekənsɑel/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reconciliō.

  1. borrowed from reconciliō

Definitions

  1. To restore a friendly relationship

    To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back or return to harmony.

    • to reconcile people who have quarrelled
    • to wait until others have reconciled

  2. To make things compatible or consistent.

    • to reconcile differences
    • Some Figures monstrous and mis-shap'd appear, Consider'd singly, or beheld too near, Which, but proportion'd to their Light, or Place, Due Distance reconciles to Form and Grace
    • The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.

  3. To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the…

    To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.

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Derived

irreconcile, reconcilability, reconcilable, reconcilee, reconcilement, reconciler, reconciliation, reconcilingly, unreconcile, unreconciled, unreconciling

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reconcile. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01reconcile02balance03calmness04silence05meditation06exercise07ability08suitableness09accommodated10accommodate

A definitional loop anchored at reconcile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at reconcile

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA