Caveat vs Warn - What's the difference?
caveat | warn |
a warning
* 1986 March 9, , "Able Were They Ere They Saw Cable", New York Times :
a qualification or exemption
* 2014 , Jamie Jackson, "
(legal) a notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding
(legal) a formal notice of interest in land, under a
To qualify a particular statement with a proviso or
* {{quote-book, 1996, Raymond M. Saunders, Blood Tells: A Thriller, page=217
, passage=I want to caveat everything I say with the disclaimer that I was working from photos.}}
(legal) To lodge a formal notice of interest in land, under a
* {{quote-book, 2005, Geoff Moore, Essential Real Property, page=93, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=rKcywZ_1NrMC&pg=PA93, isbn=1876905174
, passage=It is unclear whether or not a purchaser upon exchange of contracts will be regarded as guilty of postponing conduct if failing to caveat .}}
(legal, dated) To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended
* {{quote-book, 1840, T.P. Devereux & W.H. Battle, Reports of cases in equity, argued and determined before the Supreme Court of North Carolina, chapter=Gee v. Gee & Tunstall, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=hMYDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA108, page=108
, passage=The answer further alleged that the intestate, in right of his wife, caveated the probate in Virginia of the will of one William Hill, her relation
* {{quote-news, 1913, December 6, , Probate Court, Sydney Morning Herald, pageurl=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lKgTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eroDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4420,1740645&dq=caveated-against, page=5
, passage=The defendant, father of the testator, had caveated against granting of probate on the ground that the will not duly executed,
(obsolete) To warn or caution against some event
* {{quote-book, 1663, John Scott, date=December 14, chapter=Captain John Scott to Under Secr'y William., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, year_published=1853, volume=3, page=48
, passage=I beseach you to caveat any addresse being fully heard until some person commissioned from this Countrey be their to confront the sayd Dutch or their complices.}}
* {{quote-book, 1825, , Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, volume=1, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=9w8oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA210, page=210
, passage=This last expression minds me to caveat the Reader, not to be angry at Helebore because it's called Christmas flowre ;
To make (someone) aware of impending danger etc.
To caution (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
To notify (someone) of something untoward.
To give warning.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, tr. Bible , Galatians II, 9-10:
* 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow , Penguin 1995, p. 177:
* 1988 , Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses , Picador 2000, p. 496:
* 1991 , Clive James, ‘Making Programmes the World Wants’, The Dreaming Swimmer , Jonathan Cape 1992:
(label) To refuse, deny (someone something).
*:
*:And yf thou warne' her loue she shalle goo dye anone yf thou haue no pyte on her / that sygnefyeth the grete byrd / the whiche shalle make the to ' warne her
In obsolete terms the difference between caveat and warn
is that caveat is to warn or caution against some event while warn is to refuse, deny (someone something).As verbs the difference between caveat and warn
is that caveat is to qualify a particular statement with a proviso or caveat while warn is to make (someone) aware of impending danger etc.As a noun caveat
is a warning.caveat
English
Noun
(en noun)- Two young Harvard M.B.A.'s worked up some highly optimistic projections -- with the caveat that these were speculative and should of course be tested.
- He gave his daughter some hyacinth bulbs with the caveat that she plant them in the shade.
Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- If a midfielder and a defender are acquired by 1 September then Louis van Gaal will consider United’s summer in the market almost a success. The one caveat is that the Dutchman wished to have finished strengthening the squad before the start of the season.
Verb
(en verb)citation
citation
Derived terms
* caveatable * caveatee * caveator * caveatory * caveatrix * patent caveat * uncaveatedUsage notes
* The modern use of "caveat" as a verb meaning "to qualify with a proviso" is often considered awkward or improper. This usage is strongly associated with former US Secretary of State . ** {{quote-news, **, 1981, , Jim Quinn, Lingo, The Nationcitation, passage=Brzezinski never used caveat as a verb. Does that make him better than Haig? }} ** {{quote-book, **, 1993, edition=2002 ed., Robert McCrum et al., The Story of English
citation, passage= Some years ago, General Alexander Haig ** {{quote-book, **, 2003, William A. McIntosh, Guide to Effective Military Writing, page=59, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=RPM-6XjS5eoC&pg=PA59 , passage=Using words such as "caveat ," "resource," and "interface" as verbs is not only poor style, but also poor usage. They are nouns, not verbs, and they shouldn't be used as if they were.}}
See also
* caveatingReferences
* *Anagrams
* ----warn
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) warnian, from (etyl) . Cognate with German warnen, Dutch waarnen.Verb
(en verb)- We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic.
- He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night.
- Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you.
- I phoned to warn him of the rail strike.
- then Iames Cephas and Iohn [...] agreed with vs that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen and they amonge the Iewes: warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore.
- She is his deepest innocence in spaces of bough and hay before wishes were given a different name to warn that they might not come true [...].
- She warned that he was seriously thinking of withdrawing his offer to part the waters, ‘so that all you'll get at the Arabian Sea is a saltwater bath [...]’.
- Every country has its resident experts who warn that imported television will destroy the national consciousness and replace it with Dallas'', ''The Waltons'', ''Star Trek'' and ''Twin Peaks .