Pledge vs Bible - What's the difference?
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To make a solemn promise (to do something).
To deposit something as a security; to pawn.
To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.
* 1773 ,
* 1852 , Matthew Arnold, Tristram and Iseult
A solemn promise to do something.
Something given by a person who is borrowing money etc to the person he has borrowed it from, to be kept until the money etc is returned.
A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but not yet formally approved.
A security to guarantee payment of a debt.
A drinking toast.
A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.
A comprehensive manual that describes something. (e.g., handyman’s bible).
* 1995 , Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu",
(nautical) A holystone.
Collection of sacred writing of the Christian religion
As nouns the difference between pledge and bible
is that pledge is a solemn promise to do something while bible is a specific version, edition, translation, or copy of one of the above-mentioned texts.As a verb pledge
is to make a solemn promise (to do something).As a proper noun bible is
the main religious text in christianity or bible can be .pledge
English
(wikipedia pledge)Verb
(pledg)- HARDCASTLE [Taking the cup.] I hope you'll find it to your mind. I have prepared it with my own hands, and I believe you'll own the ingredients are tolerable. Will you be so good as to pledge me, sir? Here, Mr. Marlow, here is to our better acquaintance. [Drinks.]
- Reach me my golden cup that stands by thee,
- And pledge me in it first for courtesy.
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English
(wikipedia bible)Noun
(en noun)Wired Magazine
- Computer Lib was written as a popular primer, but its most profound effect was on computer programmers, who needed little persuasion about the value of computers. Its tone – energetic, optimistic, inexhaustible, confused – matched theirs exactly. Having set out to appeal to the general public, Nelson managed to publish an insider's bible and highly intimate guide to hacker culture.