Earn vs Granted - What's the difference?
earn | granted |
(lb) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
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, title= (lb) To receive payment for work.
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(lb) To receive payment for work.
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(lb) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
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(lb) To be worthy of.
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(obsolete) To long; to yearn.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To grieve.
(grant)
Given, awarded.
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(used to mark the premise of a syllogistic argument)
As verbs the difference between earn and granted
is that earn is (lb) to gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work or earn can be (uk|dialect|dated) to curdle, as milk or earn can be (obsolete) to long; to yearn while granted is (grant).As a noun earn
is .As an adverb granted is
.As a preposition granted is
(used to mark the premise of a syllogistic argument).earn
English
Etymology 1
Old English earnianVerb
(en verb)International friendly: England 1-0 Spain, passage=England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
Synonyms
* (gain through applied effort or work) deserve, merit, garner, win * * * (cause someone to receive payment or reward) yield, make, generate, renderDerived terms
* earner * earnings * earn one's keepEtymology 2
Anglo-Saxon irnan to run. See rennet, and compare yearnings.Etymology 3
Verb
(en verb)- And ever as he rode, his heart did earn / To prove his puissance in battle brave.
Etymology 4
Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----granted
English
Verb
(head)- He was granted a patent on his invention.
Adverb
(-)- He's a good student and usually does well. Granted , he did fail that one test, but I think there were good reasons for that.
- ''"You haven't been a very good father." "Granted ."
Preposition
(English prepositions)- Granted that he has done nothing wrong, he should be set free.
- Granted the lack of evidence, we can make no such conclusion.