Consent vs Volunteer - What's the difference?
consent | volunteer |
To express willingness, to give permission.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
(medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
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(obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
* (rfdate) Milton
To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
* (rfdate) Bible, Acts viii. 1
* (rfdate) Fuller
Voluntary agreement or permission.
*, II.6:
One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.
(label) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
(label) A person who acts out of his own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
in Wikipedia.
A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
(label) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
(label) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
(label) To offer.
To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
As verbs the difference between consent and volunteer
is that consent is to express willingness, to give permission while volunteer is (label) to enlist oneself as a volunteer.As nouns the difference between consent and volunteer
is that consent is voluntary agreement or permission while volunteer is one who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.consent
English
(wikipedia consent)Verb
(en verb)- ''I've consented to have the procedure performed.
- My poverty, but not my will, consents .
- Interpreters will not consent it to be a true story.
- And Saul was consenting unto his death.
- Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (intransitive) acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, concur,Antonyms
* (intransitive) disagree, , opposeDerived terms
* consentingNoun
(en noun)- All men know by experience, there be some parts of our bodies which often without any consent of ours doe stirre, stand, and lye down againe.
Synonyms
* (voluntary agreement) agreement, approval, assent, permission, willingness,Antonyms
* (voluntary agreement) dissent, disagreement, opposition, refusalDerived terms
* consenter * consentaneous * age of consentvolunteer
English
(wikipedia volunteer)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to volunteer for doing the dishes
- to volunteer an explanation
- My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.
