Invested vs Speculated - What's the difference?
invested | speculated |
(invest)
(dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
(obsolete) To put on (clothing).
* Spenser
To envelop, wrap, cover.
* 1667': Night / '''Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 207-8
To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.
To ceremonially install someone in some office.
To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
* Shakespeare
To formally give (power or authority).
* Francis Bacon
To surround, accompany, or attend.
* Hawthorne
To lay siege to.
To make investments.
(metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
(meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.
(speculate)
To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
* Hawthorne
To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
As verbs the difference between invested and speculated
is that invested is (invest) while speculated is (speculate).invested
English
Verb
(head)invest
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) investir, from (etyl) ; see vest.Verb
(en verb)- He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
- cannot find one this girdle to invest
- We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
- I do invest you jointly with my power.
- It investeth a right of government.
- awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt
- to invest a town
Derived terms
* investable * investor * investmentEtymology 2
From , by shorteningNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
*speculated
English
Verb
(head)speculate
English
Verb
(speculat)- It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}