Berth vs Employ - What's the difference?

Berth is a synonym of employ.

As nouns the difference between berth and employ

is that berth is a fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc) while employ is the state of being an employee; employment.

As verbs the difference between berth and employ

is that berth is to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth while employ is to hire (somebody for work or a job).

berth

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A fixed bunk for sleeping in (caravans, trains, etc).

Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth .)

A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.

(nautical) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

A job or position, especially on a ship.

(sports) Position or seed in a tournament bracket.

(sports) position on the field of play

* {{quote-news, year=2012

, date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Olivier Giroud then entered the fray and Walcott reverted to his more familiar berth on the right wing, quickly creating his side's fifth goal by crossing for Giroud to send a plunging header into the net from close range.}}

Verb

(en verb)

to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth

to assign a berth (bunk or position) to

employ

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

The state of being an employee; employment.

''The school district has six thousand teachers in its employ .

Synonyms

* employment * hire

Verb

(en verb)

To hire (somebody for work or a job).

* 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}

To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).

* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (Othello) , Act 1, Scene iii:

Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you / against the general enemy Ottoman.

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

This is a day in which the thoughtsought to be employed on serious subjects.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose

, title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

To make busy.

* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), (The Merchant of Venice) , Act 2, Scene viii:

Let it not enter in your mind of love: / Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts / to courtship and such fair ostents of love / as shall conveniently become you there

Derived terms

* employee * employer * employment

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