Stipend vs Fruit - What's the difference?
stipend | fruit | Related terms |
a fixed payment, generally small and occurring at regular intervals; a modest allowance
To provide (someone) with a stipend.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 122:
*:As well as enjoying links in the royal court, he was said to stipend some 200 individuals in the city of Paris to spread favourable news stories about himself.
(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
* Macaulay
Offspring from a sexual union.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
Stipend is a related term of fruit.
As nouns the difference between stipend and fruit
is that stipend is a fixed payment, generally small and occurring at regular intervals; a modest allowance while fruit is (botany) the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.As verbs the difference between stipend and fruit
is that stipend is to provide (someone) with a stipend while fruit is to produce fruit.stipend
English
(wikipedia stipend)Noun
(en noun)- My stipend for doing public service is barely enough to cover living expenses.
Synonyms
* allowanceCoordinate terms
* pocket moneyDerived terms
* stipendiaryVerb
(en verb)fruit
English
(wikipedia fruit)Noun
(see for discussion of plural )- While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown