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Ensure vs Azure - What's the difference?

ensure | azure |

As verbs the difference between ensure and azure

is that ensure is to make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure while azure is .

As an adjective azure is

azure (blue in colour).

ensure

English

Verb

(ensur)
  • To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
  • *:
  • *:Thenne he cryed hym mercy and sayd Faire knyght for goddes loue slee me not / and I shall ensure the neuer werre ageynst thy lady / but be alwey toward her / Thenne Bors lete hym be
  • To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

    Related terms

    * insure * assure * inshore

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    azure

    English

    (wikipedia azure)

    Noun

  • (tincture) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
  • * 1997 , Brault, Early Blazon :
    • In Bb'' [Glover's Roll], the conventional letter ''B is used to indicate azure in most items.
  • The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
  • * Wordsworth
    • In robes of azure .
  • (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
  • *
    • Not like those steps / On heaven's azure .
  • Lapis lazuli.

    • Alternative forms

    * (blue color on a coat of arms)

    Derived terms

    * azurely * azureness * azurite * azurity

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
  • *
    • When Britain first, at Heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main.
  • (tincture) In blazon, of the colour blue.

    • Verb

    (azur)
  • To colour blue.

    • See also

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