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Hospital vs Insure - What's the difference?

hospital | insure |

As a noun hospital

is a building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.

As an adjective hospital

is (obsolete) hospitable.

As a verb insure is

to provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.

hospital

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
  • A building founded for the long term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
  • (obsolete) A place of lodging.
  • * , II.ix:
  • they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale , / They thither marcht [...].
  • The place and state of being hospitalized.
  • Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital .

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * cottage hospital

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) hospitable
  • (Howell)
    1000 English basic words ----

    insure

    English

    Verb

  • To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.
  • I'm not insured against burglary.
  • To deal in such contracts; subscribe to a policy of insurance
  • (chiefly, US) : To make sure or certain of; guarantee.
  • * 1787 , ,
  • ''We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
  • : To give confidence in the trustworthiness of.
  • He insured me that there would be no further delays.

    Usage notes

    * (provide for compensation) Note that both the person taking out insurance and the company with whom the policy is taken are said to insure the risk.

    Derived terms

    * insurance * insurer * reinsure

    See also

    * inshore

    Anagrams

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