Purchase vs Stan - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between purchase and stan

is that purchase is (obsolete) the act or process of seeking and obtaining something (eg property, etc) while stan is tin.

As verbs the difference between purchase and stan

is that purchase is to pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire while stan is to stare.

purchase

English

Noun

(obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)

* Beaumont and Fletcher

I'll get meat to have thee, / Or lose my life in the purchase .

An individual item one has purchased.

The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.

That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.

That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.

He was pleased with his latest purchase .

(uncountable) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.

It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.

The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.

(rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.

(legal, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

(Blackstone)

Derived terms

* purchase order * repurchase

Verb

(purchas)

To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

* Spenser

that loves the thing he cannot purchase

* Shakespeare

Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.

* Shakespeare

His faults hereditary / Rather than purchased .

To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

to purchase''' land'', ''to '''purchase a house

To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.

to purchase favor with flattery

* Shakespeare

One poor retiring minute / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.

To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

* Shakespeare

Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.

To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase' upon, or apply a ' purchase to.

to purchase a cannon

To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.

* Ld. Berners

Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.

To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

''Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution

Synonyms

* (buy) procure

Derived terms

* purchable * purchasing agent * purchasing power

stan

English

Noun

(en noun)

An extremely loyal and obsessed fan, particularly one whose fixation with a celebrity is unhealthy or intrusive.

* 2011 , Vanessa Spates, " Whether in Britney's Army or Rihanna's Navy, stans need to surrender to sanity", The Lantern (Ohio State University), Volume 132, Number 16, 11 October 2011, page 9A:

I know the in-depth detailed life of a stan because I am one. I'm one of those Lady Gaga fans,

* 2013 , " Selena Gomez: She Is My Queen", Sunday Tribune (South Africa), 17 March 2013:

I am the biggest stan for Selena because she is my queen. She made Disney interesting and I have always watched her.

* 2013 , Jake Folsom, " Stans take dedication to extreme heights online, in real life", Washington Square News , Volume 41, Number 104, 5 December 2013, page 11:

Incidents have occurred with stans showing up to pop stars' residences, as has happened with Madonna, Taylor Swift and others.

Hypernyms

* megafan, superfan, trufan, uberfan ----