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Coordinate vs. Oversee — What's the Difference?

Coordinate vs. Oversee — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Coordinate and Oversee

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Coordinate

Bring the different elements of (a complex activity or organization) into a harmonious or efficient relationship
He had responsibility for coordinating London's transport services

Oversee

Supervise (a person or their work), especially in an official capacity
The Home Secretary oversees the police service

Coordinate

Form a coordinate bond to (an atom or molecule)
The sodium atom is coordinated to two oxygen atoms

Oversee

To watch over and direct; supervise.

Coordinate

Equal in rank or importance
Cross references in the catalogue link subjects which may be coordinate
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Oversee

(literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.

Coordinate

Denoting a type of covalent bond in which one atom provides both the shared electrons.

Oversee

(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
It is congress's duty to oversee the spending of federal funds.

Coordinate

Each of a group of numbers used to indicate the position of a point, line, or plane.

Oversee

To inspect, examine
Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.

Coordinate

Matching items of clothing
Matching accessories provide a complete ensemble of colour coordinates

Oversee

(obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.

Coordinate

(Mathematics)Any of a set of two or more numbers used to determine the position of a point, line, curve, or plane in a space of a given dimension with respect to a system of lines or other fixed references.

Oversee

To observe secretly or unintentionally.

Coordinate

Coordinates Informal Directions
Give me some coordinates so I can find my way.

Oversee

To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook{2}.

Coordinate

Coordinates A set of articles, as of clothing or luggage, designed to match or complement one other, as in style or color.

Oversee

To omit or neglect seeing; to overlook{5}.

Coordinate

Of equal importance, rank, or degree
Jobs with coordinate responsibilities.

Oversee

To see unintentionally or unexpectedly; - the visual analogy to overhear.

Coordinate

(Grammar)Having equal syntactic status; not subordinate
Coordinate phrases.

Oversee

To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.
The most expert gamesters may sometimes oversee.
Your partiality to me is much overseen, if you think me fit to correct your Latin.

Coordinate

(Mathematics)Of or based on a system of coordinates.

Oversee

Watch and direct;
Who is overseeing this project?

Coordinate

Of or relating to a university in which men and women are taught by the same faculty but in single-sex classes or on single-sex campuses.

Coordinate

To cause to work or function in a common action or effort
Coordinating the moving parts of a machine.

Coordinate

To make harmonious; harmonize
Coordinate the colors of a design.

Coordinate

(Grammar)To link (syntactic units) at an equal level.

Coordinate

To work or function together harmoniously
A nursing staff that coordinates smoothly.

Coordinate

To form a harmonious combination; match
Shoes that coordinate with the rest of the outfit.

Coordinate

Of the same rank; equal.
Two coordinate terms

Coordinate

A number representing the position of a point along a line, arc, or similar one-dimensional figure.
Give me your coordinates and we'll come and rescue you.

Coordinate

Something that is equal to another thing.

Coordinate

Coordinated clothes.

Coordinate

(transitive) To place in the same order or rank.

Coordinate

(ambitransitive) To synchronize (activities).
It can be difficult to coordinate movement of both legs after an operation.
I was playing tennis for the first time, and it was difficult to coordinate.

Coordinate

(ambitransitive) To match (objects, especially clothes).
The outfit you're wearing doesn't coordinate.

Coordinate

Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.
Whether there was one Supreme Governor of the world, or many coördinate powers presiding over each country.
Conjunctions joint sentences and coördinate terms.

Coordinate

A thing of the same rank with another thing; one two or more persons or things of equal rank, authority, or importance.
It has neither coördinate nor analogon; it is absolutely one.

Coordinate

Lines, or other elements of reference, by means of which the position of any point, as of a curve, is defined with respect to certain fixed lines, or planes, called coördinate axes and coördinate planes. See Abscissa.

Coordinate

A number that identifies a position relative to an axis

Coordinate

Bring order and organization to;
Can you help me organize my files?

Coordinate

Bring into common action, movement, or condition;
Coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers
Coordinate his actions with that of his colleagues
Coordinate our efforts

Coordinate

Be co-ordinated;
These activities co-ordinate well

Coordinate

Bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation;
Align the wheels of my car
Ordinate similar parts

Coordinate

Of equal importance, rank, or degree

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