Plight vs Lot - What's the difference?
plight | lot |
A dire or unfortunate situation.
*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=Arindam Rej, work=BBC Sport
, title= *2005 , Lesley Brown, translating Plato, Sophist , :
*:Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
*, II.8:
*:although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France .
(obsolete) Good health.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.7:
*:All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight , / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares.
Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
One's office; duty; charge.
(archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
* Shakespeare
To expose to risk; to pledge.
Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
(reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 226:
(obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
* Milton
(obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
* Spenser
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
* W. Black
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, title= A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
(informal) A number of people taken collectively.
A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
* Kent
That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
* Spenser
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
* Bible, Proverbs xvi. 33
* Shakespeare
The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
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A prize in a lottery.
Allotment; lottery.
* 1990 : (Donald Kagan), Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy , chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing; 2239)
All members of a set; everything.
An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
(dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
(US, informal, dated) To count]] or [[reckon on, reckon (on'' or ''upon ).
As a noun plight
is a dire or unfortunate situation or plight can be responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril or plight can be (obsolete) a network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.As a verb plight
is to expose to risk; to pledge or plight can be (obsolete) to weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.As a proper noun lot is
a nephew of abraham in the bible and quran.plight
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Norwich 4-2 Newcastle, passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header. ¶ Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at pledge.Noun
(en noun)- that lord whose hand must take my plight
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
(en verb)- I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 3
Through (etyl), from (etyl) and Danish flette are probably unrelated.Verb
(en verb)- A plighted garment of divers colors.
Noun
(en noun)- Many a folded plight .
lot
English
Noun
(en noun)- He wrote to her he might be detained in London by a lot of business.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
- The defendants leased a house and lot in the city of New York.
- But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.
- The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
- If we draw lots , he speeds.
- O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's / Enough to bear.
- He was but born to try / The lot of man — to suffer and to die.
- as Jones alone was discovered, the poor lad bore not only the whole smart, but the whole blame; both which fell again to his lot on the following occasion.
- (Evelyn)
- The Greeks expected their leaders to show physical courage, whether in the athletic arena or in battle, as well as piety, generosity, and nobility. Cimon had risen to power chiefly because of his military prowess, and any rival must be able to show at least honorable service and military competence. By this time, moreover, the generals were coming to be the most important political figures in Athens. Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot . Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.
- The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot .