Busy vs Congest - What's the difference?
busy | congest |
Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
* Shakespeare
Engaged in another activity or by someone else.
Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
Officious; meddling.
* 1603 , , IV. ii. 130:
To make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied.
* On my vacation I'll busy myself with gardening.
To rush somebody.
A police officer.
(Ireland'', ''Scotland ) a tenant living on land whose resources do not support him adequately.
* 1937 , (Richard Walsh) constituency of South Mayo,
As verbs the difference between busy and congest
is that busy is to make somebody busy , to keep busy with, to occupy, to make occupied while congest is to overfill or overcrowd.As nouns the difference between busy and congest
is that busy is a police officer while congest is (ireland'', ''scotland ) a tenant living on land whose resources do not support him adequately.As an adjective busy
is crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.busy
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Adjective
(er)- a busy street
- To-morrow is a busy day.
- The director cannot see you now, he's busy .
- Her telephone has been busy all day.
- She is too busy to have time for riddles.
- Flowers, stripes, and checks in the same fabric make for a busy pattern.
- I will be hanged if some eternal villain, / Some busy and insinuating rogue, / Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, / Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else.
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Noun
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* 1000 English basic wordscongest
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Noun
(en noun)- The large farmer's land was divided among adjoining congests .
Dáil Éireann - 21 April, 1937: Acquisition of Mayo Lands for Relief of Congestion.
- Mr. Walsh asked the Minister for Lands...if he will state the cause of the delay in having these lands divided amongst local congests .