Retrieve vs Ransom - What's the difference?
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To regain or get back something.
* Dryden
To rescue (a) creature(s)
To salvage something
To remedy or rectify something.
To remember or recall something.
To fetch or carry back something.
* Berkeley
To fetch and bring in game.
To fetch and bring in game systematically.
To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
(sports) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
(obsolete) To remedy the evil consequence of, to repair (a loss or damage).
* Prior
* Burke
A retrieval
(sports) The return of a difficult ball
(obsolete) A seeking again; a discovery.
(obsolete) The recovery of game once sprung.
Money paid for the freeing of a hostage.
* 1674 , , Paradise Lost , Book XII:
* Sir J. Davies
* 2010 , Caroline Alexander, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad :
The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration.
(historical, legal, UK) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offence and the discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment.
To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.
To pay a price to set someone free from captivity or punishment.
To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.
As verbs the difference between retrieve and ransom
is that retrieve is to regain or get back something while ransom is to deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.As nouns the difference between retrieve and ransom
is that retrieve is a retrieval while ransom is money paid for the freeing of a hostage.retrieve
English
Verb
(retriev)- to retrieve''' one's character or independence; to '''retrieve a thrown ball
- With late repentance now they would retrieve / The bodies they forsook, and wish to live.
- to retrieve them from their cold, trivial conceits
- The cook doesn't care what's shot, only what's actually retrieved .
- Dog breeds called 'retrievers' were selected for retrieving .
- Most dogs love retrieving , regardless of what object is thrown.
- Accept my sorrow, and retrieve my fall.
- There is much to be done and much to be retrieved .
Derived terms
* retrieverNoun
(en noun)- (Ben Jonson)
- (Nares)
ransom
English
(wikipedia ransom)Noun
(en-noun)- They were held for two million dollars ransom .
- They were held to ransom .
- Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems.
- His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty.
- As rich as was the ransom Priam paid for Hektor, Hermes says, his remaining sons at Troy “'would give three times as much ransom / for you, who are alive, were Atreus' son Agamemnon / to recognize you.'”
- prisoners hopeless of ransom
- (Dryden)
- (Blackstone)
Usage notes
* (term) is much more common in the US, (to) in the UK.Derived terms
* king's ransomVerb
- to ransom prisoners from an enemy
- Such lands as he had rule of he ransomed them so grievously, and would tax the men two or three times in a year. — Berners.
