Sacrifice vs Suicide - What's the difference?
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To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
* “Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.” - From the song Baby Don’t You Do It by Marvin Gaye
* “God sacrificed His only-begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16).
* Prior
* G. Eliot
To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more such as an ally or business relationship or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
* (Ayn Rand), Atlas Shrugged
(chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
(baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
To destroy; to kill.
The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
* Milton
Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing.
Something sacrificed.
* Milton
(baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the bases.
A loss of profit.
(slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
(uncountable) Intentional killing of oneself.
* 1904 , , The Man On The Box , ch. 22:
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(countable) A particular instance of a person intentionally killing himself or herself, or of multiple people doing so.
* 1919 , , The Secret House , ch. 14:
* 1999 , Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion , Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-0978-9,
(countable) A person who has intentionally killed him/herself.
* 1915 , , Of Human Bondage , ch. 95:
(figuratively) An action which could have the literal or figurative death of a person or organization as its consequence, although death is not the aim of the action.
* 1959 , , in the Congressional Record , Feb. 9, page 2100:[http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_emd_quotes.htm]
* 2000 , Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, The Ice Limit (ISBN 0446525871):
* 2004 , Robert D. Lock, Job Search: Career Planning Guide (ISBN 0534574211), page 24:
(countable) A beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain.
* 1994 , Christopher Buckley, Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California , University of Nevada Press, ISBN 0-87417-247-0,
* 2000 , , For God, Country and Coca-Cola , Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-05468-4,
A diabolo trick where one of the sticks is released and allowed to rotate 360° round the diabolo until it is caught by the hand that released it.
(countable) A run comprising a series of sprints of increasing lengths, each followed immediately by a return to the start, with no pause between one sprint and the next.
A children's game of throwing a ball against a wall and at other players, who are eliminated by being struck.
To kill oneself intentionally.
* 1917 , (Lucy Maud Montgomery), Anne's House of Dreams , ch. 11:
* 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, page 136:
To kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide (now especially as part of a conspiracy).
* 1874 , The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art , page 315:
* 1898 October 29, in Punch, or the London charivari , page 196:
* 2011 , Tobias Jones, White Death (ISBN 0571275907), page 273:
In transitive terms the difference between sacrifice and suicide
is that sacrifice is to trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more such as an ally or business relationship or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money while suicide is to kill (someone) and make their death appear to have been a suicide rather than a homicide now especially as part of a conspiracy.sacrifice
English
(wikipedia sacrifice)Verb
(sacrific)- Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.
- The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum making this boy his heir.
- If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice ; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.
- (Johnson)
Synonyms
* (sell without profit) sell at a lossDerived terms
* sacrificialNoun
(en noun)- Great pomp, and sacrifice , and praises loud, / To Dagon.
- the sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer
- Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood / Of human sacrifice .
suicide
English
(wikipedia suicide)Noun
(en-noun)- The cowardice of suicide was abhorrent to him.
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- There had been half a dozen mysterious suicides which had been investigated by Scotland Yard.
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- In this way the community were not only escaping the threat of ‘global destruction’, they were hurling themselves directly into ‘the lap of God’, using their suicide as a way of ‘bridging the chasm’ between an earthly world which had no future and ‘a thousand years of unmitigated peace’.
- "I remember one suicide ," she said to Philip, "who threw himself into the Thames."
- I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
- “Mr. Glinn,” said Britton, “it's suicide to take a huge ship like this past the Ice Limit. Especially in this weather.”
- it's suicide to change jobs in mid-career.
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- You could sit at a corner and order your Suicide , and one of two twin brothers who worked there would hold an old-fashioned soda glass, a heavy tall V-shaped one with a round foot at the bottom, and go down the line with one shot of everything—cherry, lemon, Coke, and chocolate syrups—before adding soda water.
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- Using Coca-Cola as a base, a suicide called for the addition of every other flavor available.
- The coach makes us run suicides at the end of each basketball practice.
Synonyms
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* * Chinese suicide (diabolo trick) * infinite suicides (diabolo trick) * mass suicide * murder-suicide * suicidal * suicide attack, suicide attacker * suicide bomb, suicide bomber, suicide bombing * suicide king * suicide mission * suicide note * suicide pactVerb
(suicid)- "Her husband suicided three years ago. Just like a man!"
- Seems a lady poet suicided at Verringer's ranch in Sepulveda canyon one time.
- What genius but the Irish would have thought of a sow "gladiatoring her way" through the briars and furze; or of her pursuer calling out to her that if she didn't stop she would be "suicided by that holly-tree"?
- Have bought The Shanghai Chopsticks''. Proprietor at first refused to sell, but when I ordered the boiling oil he became more reasonable. Editor reports that circulation is not what it ought to be. Will publish proclaimation, "Any person found not in possession of ''The Shanghai Chopsticks (current number) will be suicided. "
- Even if he did get charged, he would be suicided long before he could involve one of the city's most important politicians in the scam.