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Give vs Invest - What's the difference?

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In intransitive terms the difference between give and invest

is that give is to lead (onto or into) while invest is to make investments.

In lang=en terms the difference between give and invest

is that give is to grant power or permission to; to allow while invest is to clothe or wrap (with garments).

As verbs the difference between give and invest

is that give is to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere while invest is to clothe or wrap (with garments).

As nouns the difference between give and invest

is that give is the amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it while invest is an unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.
  • To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
  • * 2003 , Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function , page 153
    • who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.
  • * 2006 , Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur , page 248
    • A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".
  • To lead (onto or into).
  • To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
    • The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
  • To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
  • * Shakespeare
    • But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
  • To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • * Milton
    • I give not heaven for lost.
  • To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • * Sheridan
    • I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover.
  • To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
  • (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
  • * Rowe
    • It is given me once again to behold my friend.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
  • (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
    • The soldiers give themselves to plunder.
    That boy is given to fits of bad temper.
  • To become soft or moist.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • To shed tears; to weep.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter.
  • To have a misgiving.
  • * J. Webster
    • My mind gives ye're reserved / To rob poor market women.
  • To be going on, to be occurring

    • Synonyms

    * (transfer possession of) donate, pass, transfer * (bend slightly when a force is applied) bend, cede, flex, move, yield * (estimate or predict) estimate, guess, predict * (provide)

    Antonyms

    * (transfer possession of) get, obtain, receive, take * (bend slightly when a force is applied) not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resist

    Derived terms

    See also'' given''', '''giver''' ''and'' ' giving * forgive * * give and take * give away * give away the store * give back * give birth * give forth * give head * give in * give it one's all * give it one's best shot * give it up for * given * give off * give one's all * give one's daughter away * give on to * give or take * give out * give over * give pause * give someone a break * give someone a chance * give someone a kiss * give someone grief * give someone the business * give someone the time of day * give something a miss * give something a shot * give something a try * give thanks * give to understand * give up * give way * it is better to give than to receive * something's got to give * what gives? * you only get what you give

    Noun

    (-)
  • (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
    • This chair doesn't have much give .

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words 200 English basic words English irregular verbs English verbs with two objects ----

    invest

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) investir, from (etyl) ; see vest.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
  • (obsolete) To put on (clothing).
  • * Spenser
    • cannot find one this girdle to invest
  • To envelop, wrap, cover.
  • * 1667': Night / '''Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 207-8
  • To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
  • To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.
    • We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
  • To ceremonially install someone in some office.
  • To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do invest you jointly with my power.
  • To formally give (power or authority).
  • * Francis Bacon
    • It investeth a right of government.
  • To surround, accompany, or attend.
  • * Hawthorne
    • awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt
  • To lay siege to.
    • to invest a town
  • To make investments.
  • (metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
    • Derived terms
    * investable * investor * investment

    Etymology 2

    From , by shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.

    • Anagrams

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