Meddle vs Concern - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between meddle and concern

is that meddle is (obsolete) to mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend while concern is (label) to relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

As a noun concern is

that which affects one's welfare or happiness.

meddle

English

Verb

(meddl)

(obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.

*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:

*:he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue.

*:But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten / thus was the tree longe of grene colour

*, II.5.1.v:

*:Take a ram's head that never meddled with an ewe, cut off at a blow, and the horns only taken away, boil it well, skin and wool together.

(senseid)To interfere (in) or (with); to concern oneself with unduly.

*Bible, 2 Kings xiv.10:

*:Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt?

*John Locke

*:The civil lawyershave meddled in a matter that belongs not to them.

(obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.

*Tyndale

*:Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.

:(Barrow)

Derived terms

* meddlement * meddlesome * meddler

Anagrams

concern

English

Noun

That which affects one's welfare or happiness.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle , passage=Although the encounter was bathed in sunshine, the match failed to reach boiling point but that will be of little concern to Gerard Houllier's team, who took a huge step forward before they face crucial matches against their relegation rivals.}}

The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, title=The Dust of Conflict, chapter=22 citation , passage=Appleby

A business, firm or enterprise; a company.

* 2001 November 18, " What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):

Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.

(computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.

* 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)

At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .

Synonyms

* (sense, that which affects one's welfare or happiness) interest

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Verb

(en verb)

(label) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

*(Bible), (w) xxviii. 31

*:Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation.

*(James Fenimore Cooper) (1789-1851)

*:ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned

*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned , welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.

(label) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.

*(Samuel Rogers) (1763-1855)

*:They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favour.

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.

(label) To make somebody worried.

Derived terms

* concernable