Price vs Fare - What's the difference?
price | fare |
The cost required to gain possession of something.
* Shakespeare
* , chapter=3
, title= The cost of an action or deed.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
* Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
* Keble
To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
(obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
(colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
(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.
* Denham
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, title= To eat, dine.
* Bible, Luke xvi. 19
(impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
* Milton
In obsolete terms the difference between price and fare
is that price is to set a price on; to value; to prize while fare is a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.As nouns the difference between price and fare
is that price is the cost required to gain possession of something while fare is a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.As verbs the difference between price and fare
is that price is to determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on while fare is to go, travel.As a proper noun Price
is {{surname|Welsh patronymic|from=Welsh}}, anglicized from {{term|ap|lang=cy}} {{term|Rhys|lang=cy}}.As a phrase PRICE
is protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation. A common treatment method for sprained joints.price
English
Noun
(en noun)- We can afford no more at such a price .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
Derived terms
* list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset priceVerb
(pric)- Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
- to price eggs
External links
* * 1000 English basic wordsfare
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.”}}
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*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
Ian Sample
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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.