Ban vs Avoid - What's the difference?
ban | avoid |
(obsolete) To summon; call out.
To anathematise; pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; place under a ban.
To curse; execrate.
* (Spenser)
* (Sir Walter Scott)
To prohibit; interdict; proscribe; forbid or block from participation.
* (Byron)
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, title= To curse; utter curses or maledictions.
prohibition
* Milton
A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
(obsolete) A curse or anathema.
* Shakespeare
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian (l)
A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian
A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from.
:I try to avoid the company of gamblers.
*1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 4:
*:The devyllsayde unto hym: all these will I geve the, iff thou wilt faull doune and worship me. Then sayde Jesus unto hym. Avoyde Satan.
*Milton
*:What need a man forestall his date of grief, / And run to meet what he would most avoid ?
*Macaulay
*:He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility.
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, title= (obsolete) To make empty; to clear.
:(Wyclif)
To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).
*Spenser
*:How can these grants of the king's be avoided ?
(legal) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
:(Blackstone)
(obsolete) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
:(Sir Thomas Browne)
(obsolete) To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.
*:
*:Anone they encountred to gyders / and he with the reed shelde smote hym soo hard that he bare hym ouer to the erthe / There with anone came another Knyght of the castel / and he was smyten so sore that he auoyded his fadel
*Francis Bacon
*:Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room.
(obsolete) To get rid of.
:(Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.
(obsolete) To become void or vacant.
As verbs the difference between ban and avoid
is that ban is (obsolete) to summon; call out while avoid is to keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor not to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.As a noun ban
is prohibition or ban can be a subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a romanian leu or ban can be a unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit or ban can be a title used in several states in central and south-eastern europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.ban
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bannen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Verb
Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave, passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.}}
A new prescription, passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
Synonyms
* forbid * prohibit * disallowNoun
(en noun)- under ban to touch
- Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice.
- He has sent abroad to assemble his ban and arriere ban.
- The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king.
- ''France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated.
- The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.''
- The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled ‘convoking the ban.
- Hecate's ban
See also
* bannsEtymology 2
Noun
(bani)Etymology 3
From (Banburismus); coined by .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* decibanSynonyms
* dit, hartleySee also
* bit, nat, qubitEtymology 4
From (etyl) (term) (compare Serbo-Croatian .Noun
(en noun)avoid
English
Verb
England 1-0 Ukraine, passage=England could have met world and European champions Spain but that eventuality was avoided by Sweden's 2-0 win against France, and Rooney's first goal in a major tournament since scoring twice in the 4-2 victory over Croatia in Lisbon at Euro 2004.}}