Hared vs Hired - What's the difference?
hared | hired |
(hare)
Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus , similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
To move swiftly.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=February 4
, author=Gareth Roberts
, title=Wales 19-26 England
, work=BBC
(obsolete) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
(hire)
Payment for the temporary use of something.
(obsolete) Reward, payment.
* Bible, Luke x. 7
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.
A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
(label) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.
* , chapter=16
, title= (label) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
(label) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
(label) To accomplish by paying for services.
(label) To accept employment.
As verbs the difference between hared and hired
is that hared is (hare) while hired is (hire).hared
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(head)Anagrams
*hare
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(wikipedia hare)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* arctic hare * Belgian hare * brown hare * European hare * hare and hounds * harebell * harebrained * hare lip * hold with the hare and run with the hounds * March hare * mountain hare * Patagonian hare * sea hare * snowshoe hare * springhareVerb
(har)citation, page= , passage=But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support. }}
Synonyms
* * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), , (m).Alternative forms
*Verb
(har)- (John Locke)
Anagrams
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l), (l) ----hired
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * ----hire
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Noun
(en noun)- The sign offered pedalos on hire .
- The labourer is worthy of his hire .
- I will him reaue of armes, the victors hire , / And of that shield, more worthy of good knight; / For why should a dead dog be deckt in armour bright?
- ''When my grandfather retired, he had over twenty mechanics in his hire .
- We pair up each of our new hires''' with one of our original '''hires .
Synonyms
* (state of being hired) employment, employVerb
(hir)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.”}}