Copartnery vs Club - What's the difference?
copartnery | club | Related terms |
A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything(w).
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, title= #An implement to hit the ball in some ballgames, e.g. golf.
An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club , or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
#(lb) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
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#*:He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
*:They laid down the club .
*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
*:We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club .
An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
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A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
#A playing card marked with such a symbol.
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(lb) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
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to hit with a club.
To join together to form a group.
* Dryden
(transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
To go to nightclubs.
To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
* Jonathan Swift
To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
(nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
(military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
* {{quote-book
, year=1876
, author=Major-General G. E. Voyle and Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S.
, title=A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition
, publisher=London: William Clowes & Sons
, page=80
, passage=To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column.
}}
To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
(military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
Copartnery is a related term of club.
As nouns the difference between copartnery and club
is that copartnery is the state of being copartners in any undertaking while club is club (association of members).copartnery
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club
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(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs ,
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* (weapon) cudgel * (sports association) teamHyponyms
* *Derived terms
* benefit club * clubbing * clubfoot * clubhouse * club sandwich * golf club * nightclub * on the clubVerb
(clubb)- He clubbed the poor dog.
- Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
- a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
- to club the expense
- to club exertions
