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Delight vs Rejoin - What's the difference?

delight | rejoin |

As verbs the difference between delight and rejoin

is that delight is to give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly while rejoin is to join again; to unite after separation.

As a noun delight

is joy; pleasure.

delight

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Joy; pleasure.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xviii. 2
    • A fool hath no delight in understanding.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
  • Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
  • * Milton:
    • Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight .
  • * (Greensleeves):
    • Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight,

    Derived terms

    * undelight * delightful

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
  • * Tennyson
    • Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
  • (label) To have or take great pleasure

    • Derived terms

    * delight in

    Related terms

    * delicacy * delicate * delicatessen * delicious

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    rejoin

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To join again; to unite after separation.
  • To come, or go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again.
  • * (editor), ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope , Volume II, page 60,
    • Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot:
  • * , Episode 16
    • The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 13 , author=Andrew Benson , title=Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later.}}
  • (archaic) To state in reply; -- followed by an object clause.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • 'Be careful what you do,' rejoined another man's voice that I did not know, 'lest someone see you digging, and scent us out.'
  • (archaic): To answer to a reply.
  • (legal) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.
  • (patent law , non-standard) in US patent law To re-insert a patent claim, typically after allowance of a patent application, applied to patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement, based on rejoinder (patent law).

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