Inroad vs Cost - What's the difference?
inroad | cost |
an advance into enemy territory, an incursion, an attempted invasion
* 1776 : Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol 1
*1850 , '', ''The present time
*:And everywhere the people, or the populace, take their own government upon themselves; and open “kinglessness,” what we call anarchy , […] is everywhere the order of the day. Such was the history, from Baltic to Mediterranean, in Italy, France, Prussia, Austria, from end to end of Europe, in those March days of 1848. Since the destruction of the old Roman Empire by inroad of the Northern Barbarians, I have known nothing similar.
* 1910 : G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World
(usually plural) progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem
* 1983 : Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV, episode 1.03)
(obsolete) To make an inroad into; to invade.
Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
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, title= A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
To incur a charge; to require payment of a price.
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*:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:though it cost me ten nights' watchings
(label) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:to do him wanton rites, which cost them woe
To calculate or estimate a price.
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(obsolete) A rib; a side.
* Ben Jonson
(heraldry) A cottise.
As nouns the difference between inroad and cost
is that inroad is an advance into enemy territory, an incursion, an attempted invasion while cost is manner; way; means; available course; contrivance or cost can be amount of money, time, etc that is required or used or cost can be (obsolete) a rib; a side.As verbs the difference between inroad and cost
is that inroad is (obsolete|transitive) to make an inroad into; to invade while cost is to incur a charge; to require payment of a price.inroad
English
Noun
(en noun)- The brave and active Contsantius delivered Gaul from a very furious inroad of the Alemanni;
- ... our whole great commercial system breaks down. It is breaking down, under the inroad of women who are adopting the unprecedented and impossible course of taking the system seriously and doing it well.
- You must have been fairly surprised at Dr. Glaser's inroads into reprogramming the brain.
Verb
(en verb)- The Saracens conquered Spain, inroaded Aquitaine. — Fuller.
Anagrams
*cost
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) dialectal . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- at all costs (= "by all means")
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from , see below.Noun
(wikipedia cost) (en noun)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
Derived terms
{{der3, appraisal cost , at cost , carbon cost , cost and freight , cost avoidance , cost-benefit , cost benefit analysis , cost center , cost control , cost cutting , cost-effective , cost-efficient , cost function , costless , costly , cost objective , cost of business, cost of doing business, cost of sales , cost of living , cost of money , cost overrun , cost per avalable seat mile , cost price , cost-push , design to cost , flotation cost , landed cost , low-cost , marginal cost , opportunity cost , private cost , sunk cost , unexpired cost , unit cost , variable cost}}Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), .Verb
See Usage notes.Usage notes
The past tense and past participle is cost'' in the sense of "this computer cost''' me £600", but ''costed'' in the sense of 'calculated', "the project was ' costed at $1 million."Derived terms
* cost an arm and a leg * cost a pretty penny * cost the earth * how much does it costEtymology 4
Noun
(en noun)- betwixt the costs of a ship