Compromise vs Brook - What's the difference?
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The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
* Shakespeare
* Burke
* Hallam
A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
* Lamb
(ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
* Shakespeare
To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
* Fuller
To find a way between extremes.
To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
* Motley
To cause impairment of.
To breach (a security system).
To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
To earn; deserve.
(label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
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A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
*Bible, (w) viii. 7
*:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
A water meadow.
Low, marshy ground.
As a noun compromise
is the settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.As a verb compromise
is (ambitransitive) to bind by mutual agreement.As a proper noun brook is
for someone living by a brook .compromise
English
(wikipedia compromise)Noun
(en noun)- But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
- a compromise of character or right
- I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.
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* *Verb
(compromis)- Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
- The controversy may easily be compromised .
- To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
- He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.
Derived terms
* compromising (adjective )External links
* ----brook
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
- Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.