Remove vs Purchase - What's the difference?

Remove is a related term of purchase.

As verbs the difference between remove and purchase

is that remove is (label) to move something from one place to another, especially to take away while purchase is to pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

As nouns the difference between remove and purchase

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

remove

English

Verb

(remov)

(label) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.

*(Bible), (w) xix.14:

*:Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark.

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# To replace a dish within a course.

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(label) To murder.

To dismiss a batsman.

(label) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:

*:Die had she rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any should of falsenesse her reproue, / Or loosenesse, that she lightly did remoue .

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Karen McVeigh

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To depart, leave.

*:THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple

(label) To change one's residence; to move.

*(William Shakespeare)

*:Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.

*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

*:Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.

*1834 , (David Crockett), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p.20:

*:Shortly after this, my father removed , and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.

To dismiss or discharge from office.

Synonyms

* unstay

Antonyms

* (move something from one place to another) settle, place, add

Derived terms

* removable * removal * remover

Noun

(en noun)

The act of removing something.

* (rfdate) (Milton)

This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.

* (rfdate) (Goldsmith)

And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

(archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.

(British) (at some public schools ) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last

A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")

* (rfdate) (Addison)

A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.

Distance in time or space; interval.

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(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.

* (rfdate)

It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.

The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

(Jonathan Swift)

References

* OED 2nd edition 1989 1000 English basic words ----

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