Purchased vs Bought - What's the difference?

purchased | bought |

As verbs the difference between purchased and bought

is that purchased is past tense of purchase while bought is past tense of buy.

As a noun bought is

a bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.

purchased

English

Verb

(head)

(purchase)

purchase

English

Noun

(obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)

* Beaumont and Fletcher

I'll get meat to have thee, / Or lose my life in the purchase .

An individual item one has purchased.

The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.

That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.

That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.

He was pleased with his latest purchase .

(uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.

It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.

The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.

(rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.

(legal, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

(Blackstone)

Derived terms

* purchase order * repurchase

Verb

(purchas)

To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

* Spenser

that loves the thing he cannot purchase

* Shakespeare

Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.

* Shakespeare

His faults hereditary / Rather than purchased .

To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

to purchase''' land'', ''to '''purchase a house

To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.

to purchase favor with flattery

* Shakespeare

One poor retiring minute / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.

To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

* Shakespeare

Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.

To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase' upon, or apply a ' purchase to.

to purchase a cannon

To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.

* Ld. Berners

Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.

To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

''Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution

Synonyms

* (buy) procure

Derived terms

* purchable * purchasing agent * purchasing power

bought

English

Etymology 1

See buy

Verb

(head)

(buy).

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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 things Sometimes this mistake makes its way into print[http://thehoopla.com.au/relinquished/.

Derived terms

* overbought

Etymology 2

From (etyl) bought, bowght, .

Alternative forms

* bout, bowt * boughte, bughte

Noun

(en noun)

(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:

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.

(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:

Her huge long taile her den all ouerspred, / Yet was in knots and many boughtes vpwound, / Pointed with mortall sting.

References

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* The Oxford English Dictionary. English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms