Owes vs Opes - What's the difference?
owes | opes |
(owe)
To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.
*1854 , Dickens, Hard Times , Chapter 7:
*:He inherited a fair fortune from his uncle, but owed it all before he came into it, and spent it twice over immediately afterwards.
To have debt, to be in debt.
(ope)
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
*:Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […].
* 1819 , (John Keats), Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 191-192:
* Herbert
(archaic) To open.
* 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :
As verbs the difference between owes and opes
is that owes is (owe) while opes is (ope).owes
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----owe
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Verb
(ow)Usage notes
* The original past tense form was ought, which during Middle English began to be used with indefinite signification and has become a distinct verb. The original past participle has become the adjective own.Anagrams
*opes
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(head)Anagrams
* * * ----ope
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Adjective
(en adjective)- We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors —
- I will to bed! — To-morrow —
- On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope .
Verb
(op)- The hour's now come, the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive.