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Haste vs Heist - What's the difference?

haste | heist |

In transitive terms the difference between haste and heist

is that haste is to urge onward; to hasten while heist is to steal, rob, or hold up (something).

haste

English

Noun

(-)
  • Speed; swiftness; dispatch.
  • We were running late so we finished our meal in haste .
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xxi. 8
  • The king's business required haste .
  • (obsolete) Hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
  • * Bible, Psalms cxvi. 11
  • I said in my haste , All men are liars.

    Derived terms

    * hasten verb * hastily adverb * hastiness noun * hasty adjective * make haste * posthaste, post haste adverb

    Verb

    (hast)
  • To urge onward; to hasten
  • To move with haste.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594, author=, title=A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition), chapter=The Wounds of Civill War, edition= citation
  • , passage=The city is amaz'd, for Sylla hastes To enter Rome with fury, sword and fire. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=He hastes away to another, whom his affairs have called to a distant place, and, having seen the empty house, goes away disgusted by a disappointment which could not be intended, because it could not be foreseen. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Samson hastes not; but neither does he pause to rest. }}

    References

    Anagrams

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    heist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.
  • * '>citation
  • (slang) A heist film: a film whose plot centers around an attempted robbery.
  • * 2008 March 6, Robert Wilonsky, "Fast and Loose", '' volume 32 number 10, page 28,
  • The Bank Job is also the first proper Jason Statham movie since his days banging about in Guy Ritchie's early heists .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To steal, rob or hold up (something).
  • Derived terms

    * heister

    Verb

    (head)