Capital vs Interest - What's the difference?
capital | interest |
(uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such as steam shovels (equipment) and office buildings (structures).
(uncountable, business, finance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially in a non-barter system.
(countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.
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, title= (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
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(countable) An uppercase letter.
(countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
(uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
of prime importance
* Atterbury
* I. Taylor
Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
(British, dated) excellent
Involving punishment by death.
* Jonathan Swift
* Milton
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 517:
uppercase
Of or relating to the head.
* Milton
(label) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
* , chapter=1
, title= (label) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
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, title= (label) A business or amorous link or involvement.
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, title= (label) Something one is interested in.
Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
*, II.12:
The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
* Ford
(obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
* Hooker
As nouns the difference between capital and interest
is that capital is capital while interest is .As a verb interest is
to engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.capital
English
(wikipedia capital)Alternative forms
* capitall (obsolete)Noun
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- Hollywood is the film capital', New York the theater '''capital''', Las Vegas the gambling ' capital .
Usage notes
The homophone capitol refers only to a building, usually one that houses the legislative branch of a government, and often one located in a capital city.Synonyms
* (An uppercase letter) caps (in the plural), majusculeAntonyms
* (An uppercase letter) minusculeAdjective
(-)- a capital article in religion
- whatever is capital and essential in Christianity
- London and Paris are capital cities.
- That is a capital idea!
- many crimes that are capital among us
- to put to death a capital offender
- Some 1,600 priests were deported, for example, while the total number of capital victims of the military commissions down to 1799 was only around 150.
- One begins a sentence with a capital letter.
- Needs must the Serpent now his capital bruise / Expect with mortal pain.
Antonyms
* (uppercase) lower-caseDerived terms
* block capitals * capital asset * capital goods * capitalism * capital punishment * capital ship * economic capital * financial capital * human capital * personal capital * real capital * social capitalReferences
* ----interest
English
Alternative forms
* enterest * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
Standing orders, passage=Over the past few years, however, interest has waxed again. A series of epidemiological studies, none big enough to be probative, but all pointing in the same direction, persuaded Emma Wilmot of the University of Leicester, in Britain, to carry out a meta-analysis. This is a technique that combines diverse studies in a statistically meaningful way.}}
Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
- How can this infinite beauty, power and goodnes admit any correspondencie or similitude with a thing so base and abject as we are, without extreme interest and manifest derogation from his divine greatnesse?
Synonyms
* (fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed) cost of moneyDerived terms
(Financial terms) * accrued interest * beneficial interest * capitalized interest * carried interest * compound interest * consumer interest * controlling interest * defered interest bond * earnings before interest and taxes * exact interest * imputed interest * indication of interest * insurable interest * interest-bearing * interest cover * interest expense * interest rate * interest-sensitive * minority interest * nominee interest * open interest * ordinary interest * pooling of interest * prepaid interest * security interest * short interest * simple interest * true interest cost * unearned interest (Non-financial terms) * by-interest * conflict of interest * future interest * human interest * interest group * legal interest * life interest * love interest * marine interest * place of interest * public interest * royalty interest * self-interest * special interest * terminable interest * undivided interest * vested interest * working interestVerb
(en verb)- It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
- Action films don't really interest me.
- Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.
- The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.
