Fate vs Fare - What's the difference?
fate | fare |
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
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The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
(lb) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
* 2011 , James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
(label) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
Money paid for a transport ticket.
A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
Food and drink.
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, title= Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
(archaic) To go, travel.
To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
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* Bible, Luke xvi. 19
(impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
* Milton
As a proper noun fate
is any one of the fates.As a verb fare is
.fate
English
(wikipedia fate)Noun
- Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate' which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that ' fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Synonyms
* destiny * doom * fortune * kismet * lot * necessity * orlay * predestination * wyrdAntonyms
* choice * free will * freedomDerived terms
* fatal * fatalism * fatality * tempt fateSee also
* determinism * indeterminismVerb
(fat)- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
- At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.
Usage notes
* In some uses this may imply it causes the inevitable event.Anagrams
* * * * ----fare
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fare, from the merger of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
References
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
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- There was a certain rich man which fared sumptuously every day.
- We shall see how it will fare with him.
- So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.