Exercise vs Offer - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between exercise and offer

is that exercise is any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability while offer is a proposal that has been made or offer can be (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off .

As verbs the difference between exercise and offer

is that exercise is to exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop while offer is (lb) to present (something) to god as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.

exercise

English

Noun

(en noun)

Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:desire of knightly exercise

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:an exercise of the eyes and memory

Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.

*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise , yet well content with the world's apportionment.

A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.

*(Thomas Jefferson) (1743-1826)

*:exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature

* (1809-1892)

*:O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.

The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:Lewis refused even those of the church of Englandthe public exercise of their religion.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:to draw him from his holy exercise

(lb) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Patience is more oft the exercise / Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.

Alternative forms

* exercice * excercise

Derived terms

* exercise book * exercise machine * five-finger exercise * floor exercise * military exercise

Verb

(exercis)

To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.

To perform physical activity for health or training.

To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.

*Bible, (w) xxii. 29

*:The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.

To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.

*(and other bibliographic particulars for citation) (John Milton)

*:Where pain of unextinguishable fire / Must exercise us without hope of end.

(lb) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

*Bible, (w) xxiv. 16

*:Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.

*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

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offer

English

(wikipedia offer)

Alternative forms

* offre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) offer, from (etyl) . See verb below.

Noun

(en noun)

A proposal that has been made.

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Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.

(label) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.

Derived terms

* make an offer

Etymology 2

From (etyl) offren, offrien, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To present (something) to God as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.

*Bible, (w) xxix. 36

*:Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.

(lb) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.

*2009 , Roger Williams, Triumph Tr2, 3, 3a, 4 & 4a

*:The next stage is to remove and replace the top part of the right side lip, and offer the lid to the car to ensure all the shapes and gaps are okay.

(lb) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).

(lb) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.

(lb) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.

*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

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(lb) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.

(lb) To happen, to present itself.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:The occasion offers , and the youth complies.

*1749 , (John Cleland), (w) , Penguin 1985, p.64:

*:The opportunity, however, did not offer till next morning, for Phoebe did not come to bed till long after I was gone to sleep.

(lb) To make an attempt; used with at .

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:I will not offer at that I cannot master.

*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)

*:He would be offering at the shepherd's voice.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:without offering at any other remedy

(lb) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the to -infinitive. See

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

(used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off

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