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Income vs Input - What's the difference?

income | input |

As nouns the difference between income and input

is that income is money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others while input is the act or process of putting in; infusion.

As a verb input is

to put in; put on.

income

English

(wikipedia income)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Money]] one earns by working or by [[capitalise, capitalising on the work of others.
  • *, chapter=23
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.}}
  • * 2010 Dec. 4, , " Why It’s Time to Worry", Newsweek (retrieved 16 June 2013):
  • In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income ; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
  • (label) A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
  • * Bishop Rust
  • more abundant incomes of light and strength from God
    (Shakespeare)
  • A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
  • (label) An entrance-fee.
  • (label) A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
  • * Chapman
  • I would then make in and steep / My income in their blood.
  • A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
  • That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
  • Anagrams

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    input

    English

    (wikipedia input)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of putting in; infusion.
  • That which is put in, as in an amount.
  • Contribution, or share in a contribution.
  • Something fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the outputs of that process.
  • Derived terms

    * input device

    Verb

  • To put in; put on.
  • To data.
  • The user inputs his date of birth and the computer displays his age.
  • To accept data that is entered.
  • * 2009 , J Stanley Warford, Computer Systems
  • The program inputs a value for the integer variable num and compares it with the constant integer limit.