Restrain vs Defer - What's the difference?
restrain | defer |
In lang=en terms the difference between restrain and defer is that restrain is to restrict or limit while defer is to delay, to wait. As verbs the difference between restrain and defer is that restrain is to control or keep in check while defer is to delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service or defer can be (legal) to submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
restrain English
Verb
( en verb)
To control or keep in check.
To deprive of liberty.
To restrict or limit.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
citation
, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
Synonyms
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Derived terms
* restraint
Related terms
* constrain
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defer English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) differer, from (etyl) .
Verb
( deferr)
To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.
* Shakespeare
- Defer the spoil of the city until night.
* {{quote-book
, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=3
citation
, passage=My departure for Ingolstadt, which had been deferred by these events, was now again determined upon.}}
to delay, to wait
* Milton
- God will not long defer / To vindicate the glory of his name.
(American football) to choose to kick off after winning the opening coin toss.
Related terms
* differ
Derived terms
* deferral
Etymology 2
* From (etyl)
Verb
( deferr)
(legal) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
* Francis Bacon
- Hereupon the commissioners deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.
* 1899 ,
- "Well, I must defer to your judgment. You are captain," he said with marked civility.
to render, to offer
* Brevint
- worship deferred to the Virgin
Derived terms
* deference
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