Entertain vs Entertake - What's the difference?
entertain | entertake |
To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.
(transitive, and, intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.
* Bible, Heb. xiii. 2
To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.
* De Quincey
* Hawthorne
(obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.
(obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.
* Jeremy Taylor
(obsolete) ; pleasure.
(obsolete) Reception of a guest; welcome.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
(obsolete) To entertain; to receive.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
*:And with more myld aspect those two to entertake .
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between entertain and entertake
is that entertain is (obsolete) reception of a guest; welcome while entertake is (obsolete) to entertain; to receive.As verbs the difference between entertain and entertake
is that entertain is to amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably while entertake is (obsolete) to entertain; to receive.As a noun entertain
is (obsolete) ; pleasure.entertain
English
Verb
(en verb)- to entertain friends with lively conversation
- The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.
- They enjoy entertaining a lot.
- Be not forgetful to entertain strangers
- The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.
- to entertain a proposal
- I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.
- A rumour gained ground, — and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.
- You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.
- (Shakespeare)
- to baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services and institutions of the holy Jesus
Derived terms
* entertainer * entertaining * entertainmentNoun
(-)- But neede, that answers not to all requests, / Bad them not looke for better entertayne […].