Med vs Meed - What's the difference?
med | meed |
(informal) Medical.
(informal, chiefly, in the plural) medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications.
(UK, dialect) may; might
* Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:
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A gift; bribe.
(obsolete) Merit or desert; worth.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
Meed is a descendant of med.
As nouns the difference between med and meed
is that med is medications, especially prescribed psychoactive medications while meed is a payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.As verbs the difference between med and meed
is that med is may; might while meed is to reward; bribe.As an adjective med
is medical.As a proper noun Med
is mediterranean: We're going to the Med for four weeks this summer.As an abbreviation MEd
is (degree) Master of Education.med
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from medical.Adjective
(-)- I'm in med school.
Noun
(en noun)- He's been very strange. I wonder if he's not been taking his meds .
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)- You med be religious, or you med not, but you can't help striking in your homely note with the rest.
Anagrams
* ----meed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) meede, mede, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- For well she wist, as true it was indeed, / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deserued as his duefull meed , / Her loue, her seruice, and her vtmost wealth.
- My meed hath got me fame.