Carryout vs Attain - What's the difference?
carryout | attain |
(US) Food that is intended to be eaten outside the establishment from which it is bought.
To accomplish; to achieve.
To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
* Fuller
To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
* Milton
* Bible, Psalms cxxxix. 6
To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
* Bible, Acts xxvii. 12
* Sir Walter Scott
* Cowper
* J. R. Green
To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
(obsolete) To overtake.
As a noun carryout
is (us) food that is intended to be eaten outside the establishment from which it is bought.As a verb attain is
to accomplish; to achieve.carryout
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Alternative forms
* carry-outNoun
(wikipedia carryout) (-)Synonyms
* takeaway (UK, countable'') takeout (''chiefly North America )attain
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Verb
(en verb)- To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.
- not well attaining his meaning
- Canaan he now attains .
- Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it.
- if by any means they might attain to Phenice
- Nor nearer might the dogs attain .
- to see your trees attain to the dignity of timber
- Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this.
- (Francis Bacon)