Sake vs Merit - What's the difference?
sake | merit |
Cause, interest or account.
* For the sake of argument
Purpose or end; reason.
* For old times' sake
The benefit or regard of someone or something.
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(obsolete except in phrases) Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.
* And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake ; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. — Genesis 3:17
(countable and uncountable) Rice wine, a Japanese alcoholic beverage made from rice.
Something deserving positive recognition.
Something worthy of a high rating.
A claim to commendation or reward.
The quality of deserving reward.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation.
* Prior
(obsolete) The quality or state of deserving either good or bad; desert.
* Shakespeare
To earn or to deserve.
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To be worthy or deserving.
(obsolete, rare) To reward.
As a noun sake
is sake, (japanese rice wine).As a proper noun merit is
.sake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at soke, soken, seek.Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake , and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
- But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis,
Usage notes
* The word sake is generally used in constructions of the form "for X's sake" or "for the sake of X", where X is a noun. (See the quotations above, for sake of, and for the sake of.) * Garner's Modern American Usage'' notes it is common to write an apostrophe rather than apostrophe–ess in this construction when the noun ends in an /s/ or /z/ sound: ''for appearance' sake, for goodness' sake .Derived terms
* for Christ’s sake * for fuck's sake * for God’s sake * for heaven’s sake * for sake of * for the sake of * for the sake of it * keepsakeEtymology 2
From (etyl) , any alcoholic drink.Alternative forms
* ', ' sakiNoun
(en noun) (wikipedia)Synonyms
* rice wineSee also
* awamori * shochuStatistics
*merit
English
Noun
(en noun)- His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
- Reputation is oft got without merit , and lost without deserving.
- To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, / And every author's merit , but his own.
- His teacher gave him ten merits .
- those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth
- Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought / For things that others do; and when we fall, / We answer others' merits in our name.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Antonyms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- (Chapman)