Partner vs Together - What's the difference?
partner | together |
Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.
# A member of a business or law partnership
#* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
# A spouse or domestic partner
# Someone with whom one dances in a two-person dance.
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(nautical) One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.
(Jamaica) A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.
At the same time, in the same place; in close association.
* , chapter=7
, title= Into one place; into a single thing; combined.
* {{quote-book, year=a1420, year_published=1894, author=The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056
, by=(Lanfranc of Milan)
, title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63
, chapter=Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone
, isbn=1163911380, publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, location= London
, editor=Robert von Fleischhacker, page= 63
, passage=Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere' þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge ' togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
In a relationship or partnership, for example a business relationship or a romantic partnership.
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As a noun partner
is partner, associate.As an adverb together is
at the same time, in the same place; in close association.As an adjective together is
(colloquial) well organized, well developed.partner
English
Noun
(en noun)page 548:
- He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner .
- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].
Synonyms
* See alsoDescendants
* French: partenaire (g) 1000 English basic words ----together
English
(wikipedia together)Adverb
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
