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Quit vs Ragequit - What's the difference?

quit | ragequit |

As verbs the difference between quit and ragequit

is that quit is to pay (a debt, fine etc.) while ragequit is to quit an online video game in anger.

As a noun quit

is any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.

quit

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) quiter, (etyl) quiter, from , ultimately from (etyl) quietus .

Verb

  • To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:Enkindle all the sparks of nature / To quit this horrid act.
  • *(Edward Fairfax) (c.1580-1635)
  • *:that judge that quits each soul his hire
  • To repay (someone) for (something).
  • *:
  • *:I was but late att a Iustynge / and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam / and twyes smote I hym doune / & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde / and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood
  • (obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
  • *:Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, / With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight ?
  • To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
  • *
  • *:Be strong and quit' yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: ' quit yourselves like men, and fight.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:Samson hath quit himself like Samson.
  • To carry through; to go through to the end.
  • *(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)
  • *:Never worthy prince a day did quit / With greater hazard and with more renown.
  • (label) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
  • *(William Wake) (1657-1737)
  • *:To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?
  • (label) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.
  • (label) To abandon, renounce (a thing).
  • (label) To leave (a place).
  • To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
  • :
  • To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
  • :
  • To close (an application).
  • (quit)
    • Derived terms
    * quitter
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "quit")
    Usage notes
    * The past tense of quit'' is now ''quit'' for most speakers and writers; dictionaries usually allow ''quitted'' as an alternative, but it is rare or nonexistent in North America and Australia, and outnumbered by ''quit'' by about 16 to 1 in the British National Corpus. Quitted is more commonly used to mean "left". ''ie. She quitted her job.
    References
    Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage , Cambridge University Press, p. 453.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.
    • Derived terms
    * bananaquit
    Related terms
    * guitguit English irregular verbs ----

    ragequit

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rage quit

    Verb

    (ragequitt)
  • (intransitive, slang, video games) To quit an online video game in anger.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 2009-11-28 , author = rms , title = What have you been playing... IN NOVEMBER 2009? , newsgroup = comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action , id = herjp3$ucc$1@news.eternal-september.org , url = https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/msg/c3498805c5470e05 , passage = Having had my share of ragequitting teammates and unfinished campaigns -- I still haven't completed a L4D2 campaign on Expert -- I'll take a positive outlook and say that the complaints about difficulty amount to a longer and taller learning curve, that will give this game a longer lifespan than the first. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 2010-02-08 , first = Chris , last = Whitworth , title = Pow, Wallop & Bam , newsgroup = uk.games.video.misc , id = slrnhn0725.gik.usenet.chris@parm.vs.topper.me.uk , url = https://groups.google.com/group/uk.games.video.misc/msg/6ffcbb2d13b27ec1 , passage = Cheap insta-kill attacks have made me ragequit at least twice. }}
  • * {{quote-video
    • , date = 2012-01-01 , episode = The Gold Job , title = , medium = Television , season = 4 , number = 16 , people = (Aldis Hodge) and (Timothy Hutton) , role = Alec Hardison and Nate Ford }}
    Hardison: I don't know what happened. I had 'em and then I just—
    Nate:' Didn't anticipate the ' ragequit .
    Hardison: You know gamer terminology?
    Nate:' I know the key to a good game is balancing boredom and frustration. Now the game — the puzzle's too easy, then the mark — the player — gets bored and walks away. The puzzle's too hard, then the player gets frustrated, and quits in a rage: ' ragequit .

    Derived terms

    * ragequitter

    See also

    * flounce * sore loser