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Heed vs Pains - What's the difference?

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Heed is a related term of pains.


As nouns the difference between heed and pains

is that heed is heathen, pagan or heed can be heath while pains is .

As a verb pains is

(pain).

heed

English

Noun

(-)
  • Careful attention.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.

    Usage notes

    * Often used with give, pay or take.

    Synonyms

    * (careful attention) attention, notice, observation, regard

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
  • * Dryden
    • With pleasure Argus the musician heeds .
  • * 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, " Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
    • Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
  • (archaic) To pay attention, care.

    • pains

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (used in plural) Trouble taken doing something; attention to detail; careful effort.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pain)

    • Derived terms

    * be at pains * take pains

    Anagrams

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