What is the difference between bought and buy?
bought | buy |
(buy).
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(obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
(obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
(obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
* 1612 , John Smith, Map of Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p. 159:
(obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
(obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
* The Oxford English Dictionary. English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods
* Benjamin Franklin
To obtain by some sacrifice.
* Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 23
To bribe.
To be equivalent to in value.
(informal) to accept as true; to believe
To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal)
(poker slang) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
As verbs the difference between bought and buy
is that bought is (buy) while buy is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.As nouns the difference between bought and buy
is that bought is {{context|obsolete|lang=en}} a bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle while buy is something which is bought; a purchase.bought
English
Etymology 1
See buyVerb
(head)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%.}}
Usage notes
It is common to hear native English speakers (particularly in the UK, Australia and New Zealand) using "bought " when meaning "brought" (and vice versa) despite the fact that the two words mean different thingsSometimes this mistake makes its way into print[http://thehoopla.com.au/relinquished/.
Derived terms
* overboughtEtymology 2
From (etyl) bought, bowght, .Alternative forms
* bout, bowt * boughte, bughteNoun
(en noun)- the river it selfe turneth North east and is stil a navigable streame. On the westerne side of this bought is Tauxenent with 40 men.
- Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall sting.
References
** The Oxford English Dictionary. English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms
buy
English
Verb
- Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.
- Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
