Have vs Occupy - What's the difference?
have | occupy | Synonyms |
To possess, own, hold.
To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
Used in forming the and the past perfect aspect.
must.
To give birth to.
To engage in sexual intercourse with.
To accept as a romantic partner.
(transitive with bare infinitive ) To cause to, by a command or request.
(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To cause to be.
(transitive with bare infinitive ) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement ) To depict as being.
Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below)
(British, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
(Irish) To be able to speak a language.
To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative
To trick, to deceive
(often with present participle) To allow
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
(label) To take or use time.
# To fill time.
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# To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
# To fill or hold (an official position or role).
# To hold the attention of.
(label) To take or use space.
# To fill space.
# To live or reside in.
#* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
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# (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
#* 1940 , in The China monthly review , volumes 94-95, page 370 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QqkTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&dq=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OB6HT4_zC4e68ASF1-jNCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA]:
#* 1975 , Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford, King Charles and King Pym, 1637-1643 , page 330 [http://books.google.com/books?ei=ex2HT9-GK5D69gTJqNjdCA&id=VCwqAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22occupied+but+could+not+hold%22&q=%22occupied+but+could%22#search_anchor]:
#* 1983 , Arthur Keppel-Jones, Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902 , page 462:
#* 1991 , Werner Spies, John William Gabriel, Max Ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe , page 333:
#* 2006 , John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History , page 496:
# (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language , second edition, 1966.
* 1590s , (William Shakespeare), ,
* 1867 , (Robert Nares) A Glossary
*:: These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy''. ''2 Hen. IV , ii, 4.
*:: Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand
*:: For 's whore; Groyne still doth occupy'' his land. ''B. Jons. Epigr. , 117.
*:: Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as occupy'', nature, and the like. ''Ibid., Discoveries , vol. vii, p. 119.
(obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
* Bible, (w) xxvii. 9
* 1551 , (in Latin), 1516
(obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
* Bible, (w) xxxviii. 24
* 1551 , (in Latin), 1516
Have is a synonym of occupy.
As an adjective have
is gaunt; pale and thin.As a verb occupy is
(label) to take or use time.have
English
Verb
: Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast 'and second-person singular past tense''' hadst''' or ' haddest .- I have a house and a car.
- Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
- I have two sisters.
- The dog down the street has a lax owner.
- I have breakfast at six o'clock.
- Can I have a look at that?
- I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
- I have already eaten today.
- I had already eaten.
- I have to go.
- Note: there's a separate entry for have to .
- The couple always wanted to have children.
- My wife is having the baby right now!
- He's always bragging about how many women he's had .
- Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
- They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
- He had him arrested for trespassing.
- The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
- The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
- I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
- Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
- Anton Rogan, 8, was one of the runners-up in the Tick Tock Box short story competition, not Anton Rogers as we had it.'' — ''The Guardian .
- We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we ?
- Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she ?
- (UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he ?
- I could have him!
- I'm gonna have you!
- I have no German .
- Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
- He had a cold last week.
- We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
- You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
- "You're a very naughty boy. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times. I won't have you chasing the geese!"
Usage notes
Interrogative auxiliary verb have ...?' (''third-person singular'' '''has ...?''', ''third-person singular negative'' '''hasn't ...?''' ''or'' '''has ... not?''', ''negative for all other persons, singular and plural'' '''haven't ...?''' ''or'' '''have ... not? ); ''in each case, the ellipsis stands for a pronoun * Used with a following pronoun to form tag questions after statements that use "have" to form the perfect tense or (in UK usage) that use "have" in the present tense. *: “We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we ?” *: “Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she ?” *: “I'd bet that student hasn't studied yet, have they ?” *: “You've known all along, haven't you ?” *: “The sun has already set, has it not ?” *: (UK usage'') “He has some money, hasn't he ?” (''see usage notes below ) * This construction forms a tag that converts a present perfect tense sentence into a question. The tag always uses an object pronoun substituting for the subject. Negative sentences use has'' or ''have'', distinguished by number. Affirmative sentences use the same followed by ''not'', or alternatively, more commonly, and less formally, ''hasn't'' or ''haven't . (See ). * In American usage, this construction does not apply to present tense sentences with has'' or ''have , or their negations, as a verb; it does not apply either to the construction "have got". In those cases, use "does" or its negation instead. For example: "He has some money, doesn't he?" and "I have got enough time, don't I?" These constructions with "do", "does", "don't" or "doesn't" are considered incorrect in UK usage.Quotations
* (English Citations of "have")Derived terms
* -'ve * be had * have a ball * have a cow * have at you * have it in for * have it off * have had enough * have had it * have nots * have someone on * have to * havesSee also
* auxiliary verb * past tense * perfect tenseReferences
occupy
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The better apartments were already occupied .
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied ; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army,
- Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.
- One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were occupied , but could not be held.
- Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.
- Spain occupied , but could not populate, and its failure to expand Florida led Britain to consider the peninsula a logical extension of its colonial holdings.
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- God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy ;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted
- OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
- It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.
- All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
- not able to occupy their old crafts
- all the gold that was occupied for the work
- They occupy not money themselves.