Fare vs Grant - What's the difference?
fare | grant |
(label) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
Money paid for a transport ticket.
A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
Food and drink.
* , chapter=16
, 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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, title= To eat, dine.
* Bible, Luke xvi. 19
(impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
* Milton
To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
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, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
, title=Money just makes the rich suffer
, volume=188, issue=23, page=19
, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
* , Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":
To assent; to consent.
The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
(legal) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
(informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).
As a verb fare
is .As a proper noun grant is
and a scottish clan name, from a nickname meaning "large".fare
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fare, from the merger of (etyl) .Noun
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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.
Derived terms
* afare * farer * farewell * seafaring * spacefaring * warfare * wayfarer * welfareDerived terms
* farewell * fareworthy * standard fare * warfare * welfare * workfareAnagrams
* English irregular verbs ----grant
English
Alternative forms
* graunt (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)page 548:
- He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner.
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- The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
Noun
(en noun)- I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.''