Constant vs Wonted - What's the difference?
constant | wonted | Related terms |
Unchanged through time or space; permanent.
Consistently recurring over time; persistent.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-16, volume=409, issue=8862, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
, title= Steady in purpose, action, feeling, etc.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
Firm; solid; not fluid.
* (Robert Boyle) (1627-1691)
(obsolete) Consistent; logical.
* Shakespeare, Twelfth Night IV.ii
That which is permanent or invariable.
(algebra) A quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion.
(science) Any property of an experiment, determined numerically, that does not change under given circumstances.
(computing) An identifier that is bound to an invariant value; a fixed value given a name to aid in readability of source code.
Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
* 1836 , (Charles Dickens), (Sketches by Boz): illustrative of every-day life and every-day people:
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
* 2008 , William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes:
* 2008 (tr.?), (Lodovico Ariosto), (Orlando Furioso):
Constant is a related term of wonted.
As a proper noun constant
is .As an adjective wonted is
usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.constant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The mindfulness business, passage=The constant pinging of electronic devices is driving many people to the end of their tether. Electronic devices not only overload the senses and invade leisure time. They feed on themselves: the more people tweet the more they are rewarded with followers and retweets.}}
- Both loving one fair maid, they yet remained constant friends.
- I am constant to my purposes.
- His gifts, his constant courtship, nothing gained.
- Ifyou mix them, you may turn these two fluid liquors into a constant body.
- I am no more mad than you are: make the trial of it with any constant question.
Noun
(en noun)See also
* (computing) literal ----wonted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Rose Villa has once again resumed its wonted appearance; the dining-room furniture has been replaced; the tables are as nicely polished as formerly; the horsehair chairs are ranged against the wall, as regularly as ever [...]
- Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.
- But not with wonted welcome;—inly moved [...]
