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Future vs Byembye - What's the difference?

future | byembye |

As nouns the difference between future and byembye

is that future is the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced while byembye is (dated|dialect) some indefinite time in the future.

As an adjective future

is having to do with or occurring in the future.

As an adverb byembye is

(dated|dialect) later.

future

English

(wikipedia future)

Noun

  • The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
  • Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
  • Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future , however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
  • (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
  • (finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.

    • Usage notes

    * (finance) The one who agrees to, at a future date, sell the commodity is considered to be selling the future; the other buys it. * (finance) A non-standardized contract to buy and sell in future is called forward or forward contract.

    Coordinate terms

    * (finance) forward

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having to do with or occurring in the future.
  • :
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

    • Derived terms

    * futurism * futurist * futuristic * retro future 1000 English basic words ----

    byembye

    English

    Alternative forms

    * by and by

    Noun

    (-)
  • (dated, dialect) some indefinite time in the future
  • (dated, dialect) hereafter

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • (dated, dialect) later
  • * 1904 , J.N. Greely, "As to Contentment", The Yale literary magazine , Herrick & Noyes, February 1904, p. 205
    • We wuz in harbor one day, in some islan's some'eres or uther way off some'eres, an' they wuz workin' us like dogs agittin' the cargo in. An' I got tired mos' ter death, an' I sneaked off inter the cutter they had tied ter the stern, an' went ter sleep. Well byembye I hears an awful racket, an' there wuz the Cap'n, acussin' somethin' awful as he pulled me in.
  • * 1917 , Percival Christopher Wren, The Young Stagers , Longmans, Green and co., p. 44
  • *:"Yore a soight fer sore heyes," quoth he.
  • *:"Have you got sore eyes, Bobball? I am sorry. You ought to go to the chemist, and "
  • *:"No, Missy. I'll go to the Canteen an' wash away all sech sorrers, byembye . Better'n the chimist," interrupted Bobball.
  • * c''. 1918 . Denis Norman Garsten, "The Runaway", '' The Shilling Soldier , Hodder and Stoughten, p. 55
    • "Then this ain't no place for you," remarked Private Piggott. "They'll be 'aving a shot at us byembye , then you'll catch it again. What d'yer come 'ere for ?"