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Hello vs Company - What's the difference?

hello | company |

As nouns the difference between hello and company

is that hello is "!" or an equivalent greeting while company is a team; a group of people who work together professionally.

As verbs the difference between hello and company

is that hello is to greet with "hello" while company is (archaic|transitive) to accompany, keep company with.

As an interjection hello

is .

hello

English

Alternative forms

* hallo * hilloa (obsolete) * hullo (UK)

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!'” at the top of my lungs.
  • (colloquial)

    • Usage notes

    * The greeting hello is among the most generic and neutral in use. It may be heard in nearly all social situations and in nearly all walks of life, and is unlikely to cause offense.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "hello")

    Synonyms

    * (greeting) ** g'day, hey, hi, ** hallo, hi, hiya, ey up ** hallo, hey, hi, howdy ** how's it going, hey, hi ** howzit ** (slang) wassup, what's up, yo, sup * See also

    Antonyms

    * (greeting) bye, goodbye

    Derived terms

    *

    See also

    * * (wikipedia "hello")

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • "!" or an equivalent greeting.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 29, author=Stephanie Rosenbloom, title=A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In many new buildings, though, neighbors are venturing beyond tight-lipped hellos at the mailbox.}}

    Synonyms

    * greeting

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To greet with "hello".
  • * 2013 , Ivan Doig, English Creek (page 139)
    • I had to traipse around somewhat, helloing' people and being ' helloed , before I spotted my mother and my father, sharing shade and a spread blanket with Pete and Marie Reese and Toussaint Rennie near the back of the park.
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    company

    English

    (wikipedia company)

    Noun

  • A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
  • # A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
  • # (label) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
  • #* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , chapter=30, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}
  • # A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
  • # (label) The entire crew of a ship.
  • # (label) Nickname for an intelligence service.
  • (label) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
  • * {{quote-book, author=Robert Barr, authorlink=Robert Barr (writer), title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation
    • , year=1913, passage=“
  • (label) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
  • * {{quote-magazine, author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot
    • , volume=188, issue=23, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title=Money just makes the rich suffer citation
  • * {{quote-magazine
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  • (label) Social visitors or companions.
  • *
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  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
  • (label) Companionship.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company . When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}

    Synonyms

    * corporation

    Derived terms

    * a man is known by the company he keeps * British East India Company * companiate * company clinic * company doctor * company front * company man * company officer * company seal * company-specific risk * company store * company time * company town * company union * fast company * fire company * growth company * holding company * in-company * incorporated company * insurance company * intracompany * investment company * joint-stock company * keep somebody company * listed company * limited liability company * livery company * management company * mixed company * mutual company * offshore company * parent company * present company excepted * private company * quoted company * shell company * ship's company * sister company * stock company * the company * title company * touring company * trust company * * you don't dip your pen in company ink

    Related terms

    * accompany * companion * discompany

    Verb

  • (archaic) To accompany, keep company with.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts X:
    • Ye dooe knowe howe thatt hytt ys an unlawefull thynge for a man beynge a iewe to company or come unto an alient [...].
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 2:
    • it was with a distinctly fallen countenance that his father hearkened to his mother's parenthetical request to “’bide hyar an’ company leetle Moses whilst I be a-milkin’ the cow.”
  • (archaic) To associate.
  • * Bible, Acts i. 21
    • Men which have companied with us all the time.
  • (obsolete) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
    • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse.
    • (Bishop Hall)

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