Fared vs Farced - What's the difference?

fared | farced |

As verbs the difference between fared and farced

is that fared is (fare) while farced is (farce).

fared

English

Verb

(head)

(fare)

Anagrams

fare

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) fare, from the merger of (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

(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= 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.”}}

Supplies for consumption or pleasure.

(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.

Synonyms

* (journey) see * (sense, prostitute's client) see

References

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(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

So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample

, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}

To eat, dine.

* Bible, Luke xvi. 19

There was a certain rich man which fared sumptuously every day.

(impersonal) To happen well, or ill.

We shall see how it will fare with him.

* Milton

So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.

Derived terms

* afare * farer * farewell * seafaring * spacefaring * warfare * wayfarer * welfare

Derived terms

* farewell * fareworthy * standard fare * warfare * welfare * workfare

Anagrams

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farced

English

Verb

(head)

(farce)

farce

English

(wikipedia farce)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(lb) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasm .

(lb) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.

Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce , or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

(lb) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 9, author=Jonathan Wilson, work=the Guardian

, title= Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao , passage=The first match in the magnificent new national stadium was a Euro 2012 qualifier between Romania and France that soon descended into farce as the pitch cut up and players struggled to maintain their footing. Amorebieta at times seemed to be paying homage to that game, but nobody else seemed to have a problem; it was just that Falcao was far better than him.}}

(lb) A ridiculous or empty show.

Derived terms

* farcical

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(farc)

To stuff with forcemeat.

(figurative) To fill full; to stuff.

* Bishop Sanderson

The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.

(obsolete) To make fat.

* Ben Jonson

if thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs

(obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.

* Sandys

farcing his letter with fustian

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