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Set_aside vs Achieve - What's the difference?

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Set_aside is a related term of achieve.


As verbs the difference between set_aside and achieve

is that set_aside is (idiomatic) to separate and reserve something for a specific purpose while achieve is to succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.

set_aside

English

Verb

  • (idiomatic) To separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.
  • Plan to set aside three or four hours to see the museum.
  • (idiomatic) To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.
  • * Tillotson
  • Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavour to know the truth, and yield to that.
  • (idiomatic) To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.
  • (idiomatic) To declare something invalid or null and void.
  • Antonyms

    * raise, beg (as in beg the question) (of a question)

    See also

    * set-aside

    Anagrams

    * * * English phrasal verbs

    achieve

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete )

    Verb

    (achiev)
  • To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
  • To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
  • * I. Taylor
  • Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
  • (obsolete) To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
  • Full many Countreyes they did overronne, / From the uprising to the setting Sunne, / And many hard adventures did atchieve [...].
  • To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013, date=January 22, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
  • , title= Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4) , passage=Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.}}
  • * (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night), II-v
  • Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
  • *
  • Thou hast achieved our liberty.
  • (obsolete) To conclude, to turn out.
  • * Prior
  • Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved .
  • * (William Shakespeare), (Othello), II-i
  • He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description.

    Synonyms

    * accomplish, effect, fulfil, fulfill, complete, execute, perform, realize, obtain. See accomplish

    Derived terms

    * achievement * achiever