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Behaved vs Discord - What's the difference?

behaved | discord |

As verbs the difference between behaved and discord

is that behaved is past tense of behave while discord is to disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

As a noun discord is

lack of concord, agreement or harmony.

behaved

English

Verb

(head)
  • (behave)

    • behave

    English

    Verb

  • (label) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
  • * Bible, ii. 21
    • those that behaved themselves manfully
  • (label) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner;
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
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  • To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iii:
    • who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.
  • (label) To act in a polite or proper way.

    • Derived terms

    * behave oneself

    Related terms

    * behavior, behaviour * behavioral, behavioural * behaviorist, behaviourist * behaviorism, behaviourism

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    discord

    English

    Noun

  • Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
  • * Bible, Proverbs vi. 19
    • A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
  • * Burke
    • Peace to arise out of universal discord fomented in all parts of the empire.
  • Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
  • (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
  • Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds meeting.

    Related terms

    * discordant * Discordianism

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The one discording with the other.