Fee vs Fay - What's the difference?
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(feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
(legal) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
(legal) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).
(obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.
* Wordsworth, On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
* 1844 , , by (James Russell Lowell)
* 1915 , :
(obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
(obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.10:
A monetary payment charged for professional services.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
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, title= To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
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* Herman Melville, Omoo
To fit.
To join or unite closely or tightly.
* US Patent Application 20070033853, 2006:
* Model Shipbuilders , 2010:
To lie close together.
To fadge.
A fairy; an elf.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
White.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 62:
As a noun fee
is .As a proper noun fay is
, originally a nickname from "faith, loyalty" or "a fairy".fee
English
Noun
(en noun)- Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee .
- What doth the poor man's son inherit? / Stout muscles and a sinewy heart, / A hardy frame, a hardier spirit; / King of two hands, he does his part / In every useful toil and art; / A heritage, it seems to me, / A king might wish to hold in fee .
- Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.
- For though sweet love to conquer glorious bee, / Yet is the paine thereof much greater than the fee .
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Verb
- The patient . . . fees the doctor.
- There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed .
- We departed the grounds without seeing Marbonna; and previous to vaulting over the picket, feed our pretty guide, after a fashion of our own.
See also
* (wikipedia)Statistics
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feyen, feien, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)- Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.
- I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
Derived terms
* faying surfaceEtymology 2
From (etyl) fegien, . More at (l), (l), (l).Etymology 3
(etyl) faie, . More at fairy.Noun
(en noun)- that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
See also
* fey * faeEtymology 4
Abbreviation of (ofay).Adjective
(en adjective)- I really went for Ray's press roll on the drums; he was the first fay boy I ever heard who mastered this vital foundation of jazz music.