Entreat vs Bag - What's the difference?
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* 2006 , Khaled Abou El Fadl, The Search for Beauty in Islam: A Conference of the Books , Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 978-0-7425-5094-0, page 236:
(obsolete) To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Jer. xv. 11
To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune.
* Shakespeare
* Edgar Allan Poe
To beseech or supplicate (a person); to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to try to persuade.
* Rogers
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
* 1937 , Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Walt Disney:
(obsolete) To invite; to entertain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To treat or discourse; hence, to enter into negotiations, as for a treaty.
* Hakewill
* Bible, 1 Mac. x. 47
(obsolete) To make an earnest petition or request.
* Knolles
A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.
(label) A handbag
A suitcase.
A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
One’s preference.
(label) An ugly woman.
(label) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
(label) First, second, or third base.
(label) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(label) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
A scrotum.
(label) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
To put into a bag.
To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
(label) To furnish or load with a bag.
* Dryden
To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
To laugh uncontrollably.
To criticise sarcastically.
(label) To provide artificial ventilation with a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To swell or hang down like a full bag.
To swell with arrogance.
To become pregnant.
As nouns the difference between entreat and bag
is that entreat is while bag is a flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.As verbs the difference between entreat and bag
is that entreat is (obsolete) to treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use while bag is to put into a bag.entreat
English
Noun
(en noun)- In the Muslim world, the most compelling and decisive books are those full of confessions written on the flesh of victims, and the most earnest prayers are the entreats for mercy screamed in pain and anguish at the tormentors and flesh and thought.
Verb
(en verb)- Fairly let her be entreated .
- I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well.
- I do entreat your patience.
- some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
- It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat .
- “But I cannot persuade her to go away, my lady,” said the footman; “nor can any of the servants. Mrs. Fairfax is with her just now, entreating her to be gone; but she has taken a chair in the chimney-comer, and says nothing shall stir her from it till she gets leave to come in here.”
- One heart / Tenderly beating / Ever entreating / Constant and true
- pleasures to entreat
- of which I shall have further occasion to entreat
- Alexander was first that entreated of true peace with them.
- The Janizaries entreated for them as valiant men.
Anagrams
*bag
English
(wikipedia bag)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (flexible container) poke (obsolete), sack, tote * (handbag) handbag, purse (US) * (preference) cup of tea, thing * (ugly woman) dog, hag * (in mathematics) multisetHyponyms
* (flexible container) bindleVerb
(bagg)- (Chaucer)
