Appropriate vs Grant - What's the difference?

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As an adjective appropriate

is (obsolete) set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

As a verb appropriate

is (archaic) to make suitable; to suit.

As a proper noun grant is

and a scottish clan name, from a nickname meaning "large".

appropriate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.

* (Beilby Porteus)

in its strict and appropriate meaning

* (Edward Stillingfleet)

appropriate acts of divine worship

* (John Locke)

It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.

Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.

While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.

* {{quote-news, year=2011

, date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets. }}

Synonyms

* (suited for) apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable

Antonyms

* (all senses) inappropriate

Derived terms

* appropriateness

Verb

(appropriat)

(archaic) To make suitable; to suit.

(William Paley)

To take to oneself in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right.

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To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; with to'' or ''for .

* 2012 , The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, Put armed police in every school, NRA urges

“I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.

(transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.

(Blackstone)

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grant

English

Alternative forms

* graunt (obsolete)

Verb

(en verb)

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.

* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner.

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To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.

* , Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":

The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.

To assent; to consent.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.

The yielding or admission of something in dispute.

The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.

I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.''

(legal) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.

(informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).