What is the difference between concern and gripe?

As nouns the difference between concern and gripe

is that concern is that which affects one's welfare or happiness while gripe is a complaint; a petty concern.

As verbs the difference between concern and gripe

is that concern is to be of importance to while gripe is (obsolete|intransitive) to make a grab (to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon something).

concern

English

Noun

That which affects one's welfare or happiness.

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* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle , passage=Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.}}

The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.

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, title=The Dust of Conflict, chapter=22 citation , passage=Appleby

A business, firm or enterprise; a company.

* 2001 November 18, " What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):

Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.

(computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.

* 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)

At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .

Synonyms

* (sense, that which affects one's welfare or happiness) interest

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Verb

(en verb)

(label) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

*(Bible), (w) xxviii. 31

*:Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.

*(James Fenimore Cooper) (1789-1851)

*:ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned

*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned , welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

(label) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.

*(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)

*:They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.

(label) To make somebody worried.

Derived terms

* concernable

gripe

English

Verb

(grip)

(obsolete) To make a grab (to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon something).

(archaic) To seize, grasp.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure?

To complain; to whine.

* {{quote-news

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To suffer griping pains.

(John Locke)

(nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.

(obsolete) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.

* Shakespeare

How inly sorrow gripes his soul.

Synonyms

* (complain) bitch, complain, whine

Noun

(en noun)

A complaint; a petty concern.

(nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.

(obsolete) grasp; clutch; grip

* Shakespeare

A barren sceptre in my gripe .

(obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.

the gripe of a sword

(engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.

Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.

the gripe of poverty

(chiefly, in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.

(nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.

(nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.

(nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.

(obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus ; the griffin.

* Shakespeare

Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.

(Webster 1913)

Derived terms

* gripe water ----