Subscribe vs Enroll - What's the difference?

Enroll is a synonym of subscribe.

In intransitive terms the difference between subscribe and enroll

is that subscribe is to contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund while enroll is to enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something.

In transitive terms the difference between subscribe and enroll

is that subscribe is to sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation while enroll is to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of.

In obsolete transitive terms the difference between subscribe and enroll

is that subscribe is to declare over one's signature; to publish while enroll is to envelop; to enwrap.

As verbs the difference between subscribe and enroll

is that subscribe is to sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time while enroll is to enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list.

English

Verb

(subscrib)

(ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

Would you like to subscribe''' or '''subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?

To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.

To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.

I don’t subscribe to that theory.

To pay money to be a member of an organization.

To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.

1913:' Theodore Roosevelt, ''Autobiography'' — under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would '''subscribe''' to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would ' subscribe most heavily to beat me;

To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

Each man subscribed ten dollars.

(business, and, finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.

1776:' Adam Smith, ''The Wealth of Nations'' — The capital which had been ' subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.

To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.

Parties subscribe''' a covenant or contract; a man '''subscribes a bond.

Officers subscribe''' their official acts, and secretaries and clerks '''subscribe copies or records.

* Milman

All the bishops subscribed the sentence.

(archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).

* Sir Thomas More

[They] subscribed their names under them.

(obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.

(obsolete) To declare over one's signature; to publish.

* Shakespeare

I will subscribe him a coward.

Derived terms

* subscribable * subscriber * subscript * subscription

enroll

English

Alternative forms

* enrol (UK) (CA)

Verb

(en verb)

To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list

* Prescott

All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.

* Milton

An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling .

To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of

They were eager to enroll new recruits.

To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)

Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?

(obsolete) To envelop; to enwrap.

(Spenser)

Synonyms

* (enter in a register) list, note, note down, record, register * (enlist) enlist, sign up, subscribe * (become a member) enlist, join, join up, sign up, subscribe * (join a class) add, register for

Derived terms

* enrollee * enroller * enrollment