Interest vs Income - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between interest and income

is that interest is while income is money]] one earns by working or by [[capitalise|capitalising on the work of others.

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.

interest

English

Alternative forms

* enterest * (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en-noun)

(label) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.

, 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= 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.”}}

(label) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.

* , chapter=7

, title= 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.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= 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.}}

(label) A business or amorous link or involvement.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan

, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= 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."}}

(label) Something one is interested in.

Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.

*, II.12:

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?

The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.

Synonyms

* (fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed) cost of money

Derived 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 interest

Verb

(en verb)

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.

It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.

Action films don't really interest me.

To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.

* Ford

Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.

(obsolete) To cause or permit to share.

* Hooker

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.

Antonyms

* bore * disinterest

Derived terms

* interested * interesting

Statistics

Anagrams

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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.