Hurry vs Enough - What's the difference?
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Rushed action.
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Urgency.
(sports) In American football, an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
(label) To do things quickly.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry , with futile energy, from place to place.
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, chapter=19 (label) Often with (up), to speed up the rate of doing something.
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(label) To cause to be done quickly.
(label) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:Impetuous lust hurries him on.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:They hurried him aboard a bark.
(label) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:And wild amazement hurries up and down / The little number of your doubtful friends.
Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
* Bible, (Gospel of Luke) xv. 17
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, chapter=15 Sufficiently.
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, title= Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very .
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I know you well enough ; you are Signior Antonio.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
stop! Don't do that anymore, etc.
As a noun hurry
is rushed action.As a verb hurry
is (label) to do things quickly.As a determiner enough is
sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.As an adverb enough is
sufficiently.As a pronoun enough is
a sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.As an interjection enough is
stop! don't do that anymore, etc.hurry
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Noun
Derived terms
* in a hurryVerb
(en-verb)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* haste * hurry up * di di mau 1000 English basic wordsenough
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Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Determiner
(en determiner)- How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
citation, passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough ! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}
Adverb
(head)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
Usage notes
* As an adverb, enough always follows the verb it qualifies.Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- I have enough to keep me going .
Interjection
- Enough !
