Ease vs Surety - What's the difference?
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The state of being comfortable or free from stress.
Freedom from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
Freedom from effort, difficulty or hardship.
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Dexterity or facility.
Affluence and freedom from financial problems.
Relaxation, rest and leisure.
(clothing) Additional space to allow movement within a garment.
To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
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To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
To give respite to (someone).
To loosen or slacken the tension on (something).
To reduce the difficulty of (something).
To move (something) slowly and carefully.
To lessen in severity.
To proceed with little effort.
certainty
* Bible, Genesis xv. 13
* Sir Philip Sidney
That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
* Milton
(legal) A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Proverbs xi. 15
A substitute; a hostage.
Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
* Shakespeare
Ease is a related term of surety.
As nouns the difference between ease and surety
is that ease is the state of being comfortable or free from stress while surety is certainty.As a verb ease
is to free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.ease
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Noun
(-)- She enjoyed the ease of living in a house where the servants did all the work.
- ''His mind was at ease when he received his pension.
- He passed all the exams with ease .
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- He played the organ with ease .
- After winning the jackpot, she lived a life of luxurious ease .
- We took our ease on the patio.
- to add ease to a waist measurement
Quotations
* (English Citations of "ease")Synonyms
* (state of being comfortable or free from stress) comfort, peace * peace of mind * (dexterity or facility) dexterity, facility, skill * free time, leisure, relaxation, restDerived terms
* chapel of ease * at ease * ease of useReferences
Verb
(eas)- He eased his conscience by confessing.
- Elyse Saugstad, a professional skier, wore a backpack equipped with an air bag, a relatively new and expensive part of the arsenal that backcountry users increasingly carry to ease their minds and increase survival odds in case of an avalanche.
- ''He loosened his shoe to ease the pain.
- The provision of extra staff eased their workload.
- We eased the rope, then lowered the sail.
- We had to ease the entry requirements.
- He eased the cork from the bottle.
- The pain eased overnight.
- The car eased onto the motorway.
Synonyms
* assuage, salve * alleviate, assuage, lessen, reduce * give someone a break (informal), lay off (informal) * loosen, relax, slacken * simplify * (lessen in severity) lessen, reduce * (proceed with little effort) cruisesurety
English
Noun
(wikipedia surety)- Know of a surety , that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs.
- For the more surety they looked round about.
- [We] our happy state / Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; / On other surety none.
- There remains unpaid / A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which / One part of Aquitaine is bound to us.
- (legal) One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.
- He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
- (Cowper)
- She called the saints to surety , / That she would never put it from her finger, / Unless she gave it to yourself.