Endowment vs Mind - What's the difference?
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Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
* 1791 , , Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791):
* 1958 , , Speech to the United Parents Association:
* 1980 , Ray Broadus Browne, Rituals and ceremonies in popular culture , page 230:
* 1985 , , Interview on The Open Mind (11 May 1985):
* 2006 , Natalie R. Collins, Wives and Sisters , page 54:
Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
* 1884 , , in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland :
* 1932 , , after assuming the presidency of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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The ability to be aware of things.
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The ability to remember things.
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The ability to focus the thoughts.
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Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
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Judgment, opinion, or view.
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Desire, inclination, or intention.
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A healthy mental state.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
(lb) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
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*:Study gives strength to the mind ; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
*1854 , Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts , p.19:
*:The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
*1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
*:Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
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, title= (now, regional) To remember.
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XXXVII, lines 25-26:
* Addison
(originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
(now, chiefly, North America, Ireland) To pay attention to; to listen attentively to, to obey.
* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, page 84:
To pay attention to (something); to keep one's mind on.
* Shakespeare
To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
(chiefly, in the imperative) To make sure, to take care ((that)).
To be careful about.
* 2005 , Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development , ISBN 9781848602120, page xv:
(obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
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(obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.
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Endowment is a related term of mind.
As nouns the difference between endowment and mind
is that endowment is something with which a person or thing is endowed while mind is the ability for rational thought.As a verb mind is
(now|regional) to remember.endowment
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(en noun)- I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments .
- We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments .
- the woman with larger-than-usual breasts will be initially perceived only as a sex object if she doesn't take steps to disguise her endowment .
- What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment .
- Tami also had huge breasts, and every teenage boy wanted to touch them. Tami, knowing she was not beautiful, used her endowment to great advantage.
- Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling.
- I seem to see a great university, great in endowment , in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness.
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Synonyms
* (something with which a person or thing is endowed ): giftDerived terms
* endowment mortgagemind
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Synonyms
* (ability for rational thought) brain, head, intellect, intelligence, nous, psyche, reason, wit * (ability to be aware of things) awareness, consciousness, sentience * (ability to remember things) memory, recollection * (ability to focus the thoughts) attention, concentration, focus * (somebody that embodies certain mental qualities) genius, intellectual, thinker * judgment, judgement, idea, opinion, view * desire, disposition, idea, inclination, intention, mood * (healthy mental state) sanity * (process of ): cognition, learningDerived terms
* aftermind * amind * bear in mind * be of one mind * blow someone's mind * breadth of mind * change one's mind * come to mind * foremind * give someone a piece of one's mind * have a mind like a sieve * have a mind of one's own * have in mind * hivemind * in one's right mind * Jedi mind tricks * know one's own mind * lose one's mind * make up one's mind * meeting of the minds * mind's ear * mind's eye * mind-blowing * mindboggling * mindful * mindless * month's mind * of one mind * of two minds * out of one's mind * overmind * philosophy of mind * presence of mind * put someone in mind of * read someone's mind * right-minded * spring to mind * to my mind * top of mind * undermind * year's mindSee also
* (wikipedia)Verb
(en verb)- The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
- You should mind your own business.
- bidding him be a good child, and mind his book
- I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
- ‘Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.’
- My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
- Would you mind my bag for me?
- Mind you don't knock that glass over.
- Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
- I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
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- He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.
- I do thee wrong to mind thee of it.