Sell vs Price - What's the difference?
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(intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
* Bible, (w) xix. 21
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, title= (ergative) To be sold.
To promote a particular viewpoint.
(slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
* (Charles Dickens)
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, title= (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
An act of selling.
An easy task.
* 1922': What a '''sell for Lena! - (Katherine Mansfield), ''The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)
(colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.
* 1919 ,
(obsolete) A seat or stool.
(archaic) A saddle.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
The cost required to gain possession of something.
* Shakespeare
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, title= The cost of an action or deed.
Value; estimation; excellence; worth.
* Bible, Proverbs xxxi. 10
* Keble
To determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.
(obsolete) To pay the price of, to make reparation for.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) To set a price on; to value; to prize.
(colloquial, dated) To ask the price of.
In colloquial dated terms the difference between sell and price
is that sell is an imposition, a cheat; a hoax while price is to ask the price of.In obsolete terms the difference between sell and price
is that sell is a seat or stool while price is to set a price on; to value; to prize.As verbs the difference between sell and price
is that sell is to transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money while price is to determine the monetary value of (an item), to put a price on.As nouns the difference between sell and price
is that sell is an act of selling while price is the cost required to gain possession of something.As a proper noun Price is
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protect, rest, ice, compression, and elevation. A common treatment method for sprained joints.sell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sellen, from (etyl) , Icelandic selja.Verb
- If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.
A new prescription, passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
Liverpool 2-1 Liverpool, passage=Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.}}
Antonyms
* buyDerived terms
* sell-by date * sell-out * sell-outs * sell-through * sell down * sell down the river * sell ice to Eskimos * sell like hotcakes * sell one's soul * sell out * sell refrigerators to Eskimos * sell wolf ticketsQuotations
* To trick, or cheat someone. *Noun
(en noun)- This is going to be a tough sell .
- "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."
Etymology 2
From (etyl) selle, from (etyl) sella.Alternative forms
* selle (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- (Fairfax)
- turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell , / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].
price
English
Noun
(en noun)- We can afford no more at such a price .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price .}}
- Her price is far above rubies.
- new treasures still, of countless price
Derived terms
* list price * pool price * price-conscious * price stability * purchase price * reserve price * selling price * shadow price * spot price * starting price * strike price * upset priceVerb
(pric)- Thou damned wight, / The author of this fact, we here behold, / What iustice can but iudge against thee right, / With thine owne bloud to price his bloud, here shed in sight.
- to price eggs