Involve vs Receipt - What's the difference?
involve | receipt |
To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
* (John Milton)
To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
* (John Milton)
To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
* (John Locke)
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, chapter=17 To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
* (John Milton)
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, title= To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
* (Alexander Pope)
* (John Milton)
To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.
To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
(mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:at the receipt of your letter
(label) The fact of having received a blow, injury etc.
*, Bk.VI, Ch.xvi:
*:And therewith Sir Launcelot gate all his armoure as well as he myght and put hit upon hym for drede of more resseite .
(label) A quantity or amount received; takings.
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A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received.
A recipe, instructions, prescription.
*Sir (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
*:She had a receipt to make white hair black.
(label) A receptacle.
(label) A revenue office.
(label) Reception, as an act of hospitality.
*(George Chapman) (1559-1634)
*:thy kind receipt of me
(label) Capability of receiving; capacity.
*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:It has become a place of great receipt .
(label) A recess; a retired place.
*(George Chapman) (1559-1634)
*:in a retired receipt together lay
To give or write a receipt (for something)
To put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; to mark a bill as having been paid
As verbs the difference between involve and receipt
is that involve is to roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine while receipt is to give or write a receipt (for something).As a noun receipt is
the act of receiving, or the fact of having been received.involve
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Alternative forms
* envolveVerb
(involv)- Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.
- And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.
- Involved discourses.
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- He knows / His end with mine involved .
- The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
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- The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.
- Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .
- Involved in a deep study.
Synonyms
* to imply * include * implicate * complicate * entangle * embarrass * overwhelmSee also
* involver * voluble * involuteReferences
* ----receipt
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Noun
(en noun)See also
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- to receipt delivered goods
- to receipt a bill
