Endow vs Bunt - What's the difference?
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To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); — followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
To bestow freely.
To be furnished with something naturally.
The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
(baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
(baseball, softball) The act of bunting
(aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
A fungus (Ustilago foetida ) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust; pepperbrand.
(baseball) to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance
(baseball) to intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance
(aviation) to perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
(nautical) To swell out.
(rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
As verbs the difference between endow and bunt
is that endow is to furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution while bunt is to intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.As a noun bunt is
the middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.endow
English
Alternative forms
* indow (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was'' ''endowed'' ''with a beautiful voice.
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* endowmentAnagrams
* * * *bunt
English
Noun
(en noun)- The bunt of the sail was green.
- The bunt was fielded cleanly.
- The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
See also
* ("bunt" on Wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- Jones bunted the ball.
- Jones bunted .
- We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the "Bunt Club", who had successfully bunted their aircraft - that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.
- The sail bunts .