Acquaintance vs Receipt - What's the difference?
acquaintance | receipt |
(uncountable) A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy
* 1799 , '', in ''The Works , Volume 6,
(countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
* 1848 , , Chapter XVI:
The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:at the receipt of your letter
(label) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
*, Bk.VI, Ch.xvi:
*:And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite .
(label) A quantity or amount received; takings.
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A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
A recipe, instructions, prescription.
*Sir (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
*:She had a receipt to make white hair black.
(label) A receptacle.
(label) A revenue office.
(label) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
*(George Chapman) (1559-1634)
*:thy kind receipt of me
(label) Capability of receiving; capacity.
*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:It has become a place of great receipt .
(label) A recess; a retired place.
*(George Chapman) (1559-1634)
*:in a retired receipt together lay
To give or write a receipt (for something)
To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid
As nouns the difference between acquaintance and receipt
is that acquaintance is (uncountable) a state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy while receipt is the act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.As a verb receipt is
to give or write a receipt (for something).acquaintance
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* acquaintaunceNoun
(en noun)- I know of the man; but have no acquaintance with him.
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- Contract no friend?hip, or even acquaintance , with a guileful man : he re?embles a coal, which when hot burneth the hand, and when cold blacketh it.
- Montgomery was an old acquaintance of Ferguson.
Usage notes
* Synonym notes: The words acquaintance , familiarity, and intimacy mark different degrees of closeness in social intercourse. Acquaintance arises from occasional intercourse; as, our acquaintance has been a brief one. We can speak of a slight or an intimate acquaintance. Familiarity is the result of continued acquaintance. It springs from persons being frequently together, so as to wear off all restraint and reserve; as, the familiarity of old companions. Intimacy is the result of close connection, and the freest interchange of thought; as, the intimacy of established friendship.Synonyms
* familiarity, fellowship, intimacy, knowledge * See alsoDerived terms
* nodding acquaintanceReferences
* *receipt
English
Noun
(en noun)See also
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- to receipt delivered goods
- to receipt a bill