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Pay vs Warrant - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between pay and warrant

is that pay is to give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services or pay can be (nautical|transitive) to cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc; to smear while warrant is to protect, keep safe (from danger).

As nouns the difference between pay and warrant

is that pay is money given in return for work; salary or wages while warrant is (label) a protector or defender.

As an adjective pay

is operable or accessible on deposit of coins.

pay

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ).

Verb

  • To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
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  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
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  • (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
  • * (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21
  • The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= T time , passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
  • To be profitable for.
  • To give (something else than money).
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • not paying me a welcome
  • *
  • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  • To be profitable or worth the effort.
  • To discharge an obligation or debt.
  • To suffer consequences.
  • Derived terms
    * hell to pay * pay as you earn * pay-as-you-go * pay attention * pay back * pay down * payee * payer * pay for * pay for it * pay forward * pay in * payment * pay off * pay one's dues * pay one's respects * pay out * pay-per-view * pay respect * pay the bills * pay the freight * pay the penalty * pay the piper * pay through the nose * pay up * rob Peter to pay Paul * take or pay * you get what you pay for
    Hypernyms
    * (to give money) compensate
    Hyponyms
    * (to give money) bribe, disburse, fund, pay off, pay out, pay up, reimburse

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
    Derived terms
    * combat pay * danger pay

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
  • Pertaining to or requiring payment.
  • Etymology 2

    (etyl) peier, from (etyl) (lena) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nautical) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
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    warrant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * warraunt (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), (warant), (warand) ( = (etyl) guarant > modern (garant)), present participle of a Romance verb from (etyl) *(term).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A protector or defender.
  • *:
  • *:And whanne I sawe her makynge suche dole / I asked her who slewe her lorde ¶ Syre she said the falsest knyght of the world now lyuyng/ and his name is sir Breuse saunce pyte / thenne for pyte I made the damoysel to lepe on her palfroy / and I promysed her to be her waraunt / and to helpe her to entyere her lord
  • Authorization or certification; sanction, as given by a superior.
  • Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof: a warrant of authenticity; a warrant for success.
  • *Garry Wills:
  • *:He almost gives his failings as a warrant for his greatness.
  • An order that serves as authorization, especially: A voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
  • (label) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest or to execute a judgment.
  • :
  • A warrant officer.
  • #A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
  • (label) An option, usually with a term at issue greater than a year, usually issued together with another security, to buy other securities of the issuer.
  • (label) A Warrant of Fitness; a document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of safety and mechanical soundness.
  • Derived terms
    * warrant card * death warrant

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), (warantir), (warandir) ( = (etyl) guarantir > modern (garantir)), a Romance formation from the noun, Etymology 1, above.

    Verb

  • To protect, keep safe (from danger).
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.44:
  • *:all honest meanes for a man to warrant himselfe from evils are not onely tolerable, but commendable.
  • (label) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value etc.).
  • *1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
  • *:His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.
  • *
  • *:Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;.
  • (label) To guarantee as being true; (colloquially) to believe strongly.
  • :
  • To give (someone) a guarantee or assurance (of something); also, with double object, to guarantee (someone something).
  • *, II.ii.1.1:
  • *:Crato, in a consultation of his for a noble patient, tells him plainly, that if his highness will keep but a good diet, he will warrant him his former health.
  • (label) To authorize; to give (someone) warrant or sanction (to do something).
  • :
  • (label) To justify; to give grounds for.
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