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Concern vs Sake - What's the difference?

concern | sake |

As nouns the difference between concern and sake

is that concern is that which affects one's welfare or happiness while sake is cause, interest or account.

As a verb concern

is to relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

concern

English

Noun

  • That which affects one's welfare or happiness.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • * {{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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , 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 .

    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.
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  • Derived terms

    * concernable

    sake

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . More at soke, soken, seek.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Cause, interest or account.
  • * For the sake of argument
  • Purpose or end; reason.
  • * For old times' sake
  • The benefit or regard of someone or something.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
  • , title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake , and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis,
  • (obsolete except in phrases) Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.
  • * And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. — Genesis 3:17
  • Usage notes
    * The word sake is generally used in constructions of the form "for X's sake" or "for the sake of X", where X is a noun. (See the quotations above, for sake of, and for the sake of.) * Garner's Modern American Usage'' notes it is common to write an apostrophe rather than apostrophe–ess in this construction when the noun ends in an /s/ or /z/ sound: ''for appearance' sake, for goodness' sake .
    Derived terms
    * for Christ’s sake * for fuck's sake * for God’s sake * for heaven’s sake * for sake of * for the sake of * for the sake of it * keepsake

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , any alcoholic drink.

    Alternative forms

    * ', ' saki

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia)
  • (countable and uncountable) Rice wine, a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.
  • Synonyms
    * rice wine

    See also

    * awamori * shochu

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