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Competed vs Compted - What's the difference?

competed | compted |

As verbs the difference between competed and compted

is that competed is past tense of compete while compted is past tense of compt.

competed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (compete)

    • compete

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

  • To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize or in business; as, tradesmen compete with one another.

    • Usage notes

    A person will compete for'' a prize received for winning a competition. Two or more persons ''compete against'' one another if they are rivals. Two or more persons can ''compete with'' each other as teammates, however ''compete with'' is also used to indicate two persons ''competing against each other.

    Derived terms

    * competitor * competition * noncompete

    External links

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    compted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (compt)

    • compt

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) comptus, past participle of (comere) to care for, comb, arrange, adorn.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) neat; spruce
    • (Cotgrave)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) compte.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) account; reckoning; computation
  • *{{quote-book, year=1608, author=William Shakespeare, title=Macbeth, chapter=, edition=, url=
    • , passage=Your servants ever have theirs,/Themselves and what is theirs, in compt , /To make their audit at your highness' pleasure, /Still to return your own. }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To compute; to count.
    • (Webster 1913)