Days vs Pays - What's the difference?
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A particular time or period of vague extent.
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, passage=In the old days', […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after ' days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
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(pay)
To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
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, title= (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
* (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21
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, title= To be profitable for.
To give (something else than money).
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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To be profitable or worth the effort.
To discharge an obligation or debt.
To suffer consequences.
Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
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, 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.}}
Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
Pertaining to or requiring payment.
(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.
As a noun days
is .As an adverb days
is during the day.As a verb pays is
(pay).days
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(wikipedia days)Noun
(head)citation, passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days , a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days , Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Verb
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.}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about
- The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
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.}}
- 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.
