Bought vs Buys - What's the difference?
bought | buys |
(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
As verbs the difference between bought and buys
is that bought is (buy) while buys is (buy).As nouns the difference between bought and buys
is that bought is (obsolete) a bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle while buys is .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