Cater vs Equip - What's the difference?
cater | equip |
To provide food professionally for a special occasion.
To provide things to satisfy a person or a need, to serve.
To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said especially of ships and of troops. Dryden.
To dress up; to array; accouter.
To prepare (someone) with a skill
In transitive terms the difference between cater and equip
is that cater is to provide food professionally for a special occasion while equip is to prepare (someone) with a skill.As a noun cater
is a provider; a purveyor; a caterer.cater
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Did you hire someone to cater our party next week?
- I always wanted someone to cater to my every whim.
Derived terms
* caterer * cater for * cater toEtymology 2
Etymology 3
(etyl) .Anagrams
* ----equip
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
- Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.
- The country are led astray in following the town, and equipped in a ridiculous habit, when they fancy themselves in the height of the mode. Addison.
