Credit vs Regard - What's the difference?
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To believe; to put credence in.
* Shakespeare
(accounting) To add to an account (confer debit.)
To acknowledge the contribution of.
To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
* South
Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
* Bible, 1 Macc. x. 46
(uncountable) Recognition and respect.
* Cowper
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(countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.
(uncountable, legal, business) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid.
The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
(uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).
(accounting) An addition to certain accounts.
(tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
A source of value, distinction or honour.
* Alexander Pope
An arbitrary unit of value, used in many token economies.
(uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
(countable) A (course credit), a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.
A steady look, a gaze.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 750:
One's concern for another; esteem.
* 1842 , Treuttel and Würtz, The Foreign Quarterly Review , page 144:
* 1903 , Kentucky Mines and Minerals Dept, Annual Report , page 186:
* 1989 , Leonard W. Poon, David C. Rubin, Barbara A. Wilson, Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life , Cambridge University Press, page 399:
(obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XVIII:
To look at; to observe.
To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
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(archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
* Shakespeare
To face toward.
* Sandys
* John Evelyn
To have to do with, to concern.
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Credit is a related term of regard.
As nouns the difference between credit and regard
is that credit is credit while regard is a steady look, a gaze.As a verb regard is
(obsolete) to set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.credit
English
Verb
(en verb)- Someone said there were over 100,000 people there, but I can't credit that.
- How shall they credit / A poor unlearned virgin?
- Credit accounts receivable with the amount of the invoice.
- For the payroll period credit employees' tips to their wages paid account and debit their minimum wage payable account.
- The full amount of the purchase has been credited to your account.
- I credit the town council with restoring the shopping district.
- Credit the point guard with another assist.
- You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.
Noun
- When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit into them, nor received them.
- I give you credit for owning up to your mistake.
- He arrived five minutes late, but to his credit he did work an extra ten minutes at the end of his shift.
- John Gilpin was a citizen / Of credit and renown.
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- She received a singing credit in last year's operetta.
- They kissed, and then the credits rolled.
- In view of your payment record, we are happy to extend further credit to you.
- a long credit''' or a short '''credit
- What do you mean my credit is no good?
- Didn't you know that the IRS will refund any excess payroll taxes that you paid if you use the 45(B) general business credit ?
- That engineer is a credit to the team.
- I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please.
- To repair your star cruiser will cost 100,000 credits .
- Would you like to play? I put in a dollar and I've got two credits left.
- If you do not come to class, you will not get credit for the class, regardless of how well you do on the final.
- Dude, I just need 3 more credits to graduate – I can take socio-linguistics of Swahili if I want.
Synonyms
* unitDerived terms
* course credit * creditable * credit card * credit crunch * credit hour * credit rating * credit reference * closing credits * end credits * extra credit * give credit * take credit for * line of credit * opening credits * take the cash and let the credit go * tip wage creditExternal links
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English
Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) reguard, reguarde, from early (etyl) regard, from , from (etyl) reguarder. Attested in Middle English starting around the mid 14th century. Compare guard'', ''reward .Noun
(en noun)- He bathed in the memory of her blondness, of her warm blue regard , and the sentiment permeated his sensibility with tenderness made the more rich because its object was someone long since dead.
- This attempt will be made with every regard to the difficulty of the undertaking[...].
- We are spending a lot of money trying to put this mine in shape; we are anxious to comply with the wishes of your office in every regard [...].
- These problems were not traditional problems with realistic stimuli, but rather were realistic in every regard .
Derived terms
* disregard * in regard * regardableEtymology 2
From (etyl) regarder, from (etyl) reguarder. First attested in late Middle English, circa the early 15th century.Verb
(en verb)- There was a Judge in a certaine cite, which feared not god nether regarded man.
- She regarded us warily.
- I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.
- He regards honesty as a duty.
- Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.
- His associates seem to have regarded him with kindness.
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- If much you note him, / You offend him; feed, and regard him not.
- It is a peninsula, which regardeth the main land.
- that exceedingly beautiful seat of my Lord Pembroke, on the ascent of a hill, flanked with wood, and regarding the river
- That argument does not regard the question.