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Annoy vs Mind - What's the difference?

annoy | mind |

As verbs the difference between annoy and mind

is that annoy is to disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds while mind is (now|regional) to remember.

As nouns the difference between annoy and mind

is that annoy is a feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes while mind is the ability for rational thought.

annoy

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
  • * Prior
    • Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.}}
  • To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
  • To molest; to harm; to injure.
    • to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
  • * Evelyn
    • tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them

    Synonyms

    * (to disturb or irritate) bother, bug, hassle, irritate, pester, nag, irk * See also

    Antonyms

    * please

    Related terms

    () * annoyable * annoyance * annoybot * annoyed * annoying * annoyment * annoyous

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
  • * 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose :
    • I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.
  • * 1870 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sciety and Solitude :
    • if she says he was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy .
  • That which causes such a feeling.
  • * 1594 , William Shakespeare, King Rchard III , IV.2:
    • Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy [...].
  • * 1872 , Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair, V:
    • The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy [...].

    Synonyms

    * (both senses) annoyance

    References

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    Anagrams

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    mind

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The ability for rational thought.
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  • The ability to be aware of things.
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  • The ability to remember things.
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  • The ability to focus the thoughts.
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  • Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
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  • Judgment, opinion, or view.
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  • Desire, inclination, or intention.
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  • A healthy mental state.
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  • *
  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
  • (lb) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
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  • *1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations
  • *:Study gives strength to the mind ; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  • *1854 , Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts , p.19:
  • *:The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
  • *1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
  • *:Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
  • *, chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=

    Synonyms

    * (ability for rational thought) brain, head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit * (ability to be aware of things) awareness, consciousness, sentience * (ability to remember things) memory, recollection * (ability to focus the thoughts) attention, concentration, focus * (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities) genius, intellectual, thinker * judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view * desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood * (healthy mental state) sanity * (process of ): cognition, learning

    Derived terms

    * aftermind * amind * bear in mind * be of one mind * blow someone's mind * breadth of mind * change one's mind * come to mind * foremind * give someone a piece of one's mind * have a mind like a sieve * have a mind of one's own * have in mind * hivemind * in one's right mind * Jedi mind tricks * know one's own mind * lose one's mind * make up one's mind * meeting of the minds * mind's ear * mind's eye * mind-blowing * mindboggling * mindful * mindless * month's mind * of one mind * of two minds * out of one's mind * overmind * philosophy of mind * presence of mind * put someone in mind of * read someone's mind * right-minded * spring to mind * to my mind * top of mind * undermind * year's mind

    See also

    * (wikipedia)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (now, regional) To remember.
  • * 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XXXVII, lines 25-26:
    • The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
    • You should mind your own business.
  • * Addison
    • bidding him be a good child, and mind his book
  • (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
    • I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
  • (now, chiefly, North America, Ireland) To pay attention to; to listen attentively to, to obey.
  • * 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, page 84:
    • ‘Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.’
  • To pay attention to (something); to keep one's mind on.
  • * Shakespeare
    • My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
  • To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
    • Would you mind my bag for me?
  • (chiefly, in the imperative) To make sure, to take care ((that)).
    • Mind you don't knock that glass over.
  • To be careful about.
  • * 2005 , Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development , ISBN 9781848602120, page xv:
    • Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
  • (obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
    (Beaconsfield)
  • (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.
  • * Fuller
    • He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do thee wrong to mind thee of it.

    Derived terms

    * mind one's p's and q's * mind the store

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