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Fruit vs Award - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fruit and award

is that fruit is the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization while award is a judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.

As verbs the difference between fruit and award

is that fruit is to produce fruit while award is to give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.

fruit

English

(wikipedia fruit)

Noun

(see for discussion of plural )
  • (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
  • While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
  • Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
  • Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
  • An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
  • His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
  • * Shakespeare
  • the fruit of rashness
  • * Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
  • They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
  • * Macaulay
  • The fruits of this education became visible.
  • Offspring from a sexual union.
  • The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
  • * Shakespeare
  • King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown
  • (colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
  • Usage notes

    * In the botanical and figurative senses, is usually treated as uncountable: *: a bowl of fruit'''''; ''eat plenty of '''fruit'''''; ''the tree provides '''fruit . * is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense: *: berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits'''''; ''the '''fruits of this plant split into two parts. * When is often used as a singulative. * In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits. * The culinary sense often does not cover true fruits that are savoury or used chiefly in savoury foods, such as tomatoes and peas. These are normally described simply as vegetables.

    Derived terms

    * bear fruit * fruitcake * fruit cocktail * fruit of one's loins * * fruit of the union * fruitage * fruitarian * fruitful * fruitless * fruit salad * fruit tree * fruity * grapefruit * jackfruit * passion fruit * Sharon fruit * star fruit, starfruit * stone fruit

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce fruit.
  • See also

    * for a list of fruits

    award

    English

    (wikipedia award)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
  • (legal) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
  • A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A based on merit.
  • (obsolete) Care, keeping.
  • *, Bk.VIII, Ch.ix:
  • *:Than the kynge for grete favour made Tramtryste to be put in his doughtyrs awarde and kepying, because she was a noble surgeon.
  • A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or industry; an .
  • *1970 , Kenneth Frederick Walker, Australian Industrial Relations Systems , p.242,
  • *:The AMIEU[(Australian Meat Industry Employees Union)] first developed into a powerful organisation in the early years of the twentieth century, and after the first industry-wide collective agreement was made in 1911, collective bargaining prevailed in the industry until 1917, when the employers sought an award' from the Queensland Industrial Court. The first ' award was issued on March 12, 1918.
  • *2000 , Mark Wooden, The Transformation of Australian Industrial Relations , p.42,
  • *:A further 17 per cent responded that the agreement replaced ‘most’ aspects of the award', leaving the large majority (67 per cent) claiming that the agreeement replaced only ‘some’ aspects of the ' award .
  • *2007 , (Australian Bureau of Statistics), 2007 Year book, Australia , p.182,
  • *:Employees whose pay is set by ‘award' only’ are those who have their pay set by an '''award''', and who are not paid more than the ' award rate of pay.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (legal) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
  • * Dryden
  • To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new.
  • To determine; to make or grant an award.
  • to give an (prize) for merit
  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

    Synonyms

    * (make or grant an award) crown

    Derived terms

    * awardee * awarder