Sunder vs Sundry - What's the difference?
sunder | sundry |
To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
To , separate.
(UK, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
a separation into parts; a division or severance
* 1939 , , Additional Poems , VII, lines 2-4
(obsolete) Separate; distinct; diverse.
(obsolete) Individual; one for each.
Several; diverse; more than one or two; various.
Consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; miscellaneous.
(usually, in the plural) A minor miscellaneous item.
* 1865 , , Crosspatch, the Cricket, and the Counterpane ,
* 1924 March, Advertisement, ,
* 1931 June, Advertisement, ,
(in the plural, accounting) A category for irregular or miscellaneous items not otherwise classified.
* 1905 , William Mott Steuart (United States Bureau of the Census), Special Reports: Mines and quarries 1902 ,
* 1910 , William Mott Steuart, Thomas Commerford Martin (United States Bureau of the Census), Street and Electric Railways 1907 ,
* 2009 , Neville Box, VCE Accounting Units 3 & 4 , 4th Edition,
* 2011 , Robert Rodgers, Peter Lucas, Bookkeeping and Accounting Essentials ,
(usually, in the plural, cricket, chiefly, Australia) An extra.
* 1954 , Percy Taylor, Richmond?s 100 years of cricket: The Story of the Richmond Cricket Club, 1854-1954 ,
* 1998 , , The Art of Cricket ,
* 1999 , Ashok Kumar, DPH Sports Series: Cricket , Discovery Publishing House, India,
As adjectives the difference between sunder and sundry
is that sunder is sundry; separate; different while sundry is separate; distinct; diverse.As nouns the difference between sunder and sundry
is that sunder is a separation into parts; a division or severance while sundry is a minor miscellaneous item.As a verb sunder
is to break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.sunder
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Derived terms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at sundry.Verb
(en verb)- {{quote-book
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Quotations
* 1881 , Severed Selves, lines 8-9 *: '' Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: — *: '' Such are we now.Derived terms
* asunder * sunderanceNoun
(en noun)- He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
- I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
- And went with half my life about my ways.
Anagrams
* ----sundry
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Alternative forms
* (l) (dialectal)Adjective
Synonyms
* assorted, divers, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, heterogeneousDerived terms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(sundries)page 16,
- Here she kept her scarlet cloak, her Sunday shoes, her best cap and apron, and her steeple-crowned hat; but down at the very bottom, underneath her new checked petticoat, she found a little bag of sundries , which might serve her purpose, and which she sat down to examine at her leisure.
page 192,
- Our big free catalog illustrates and describes parts, equipment and sundries that our more than a million riders may need.
page 54,
- It pays you to buy from Bicycle Specialists We have been in business 40 years, and can offer you positively the lowest prices for high-grade bicycles, tires and sundries .
page 476,
- Miscellaheous expenses ,—This item includes rent and royalties of all descriptions, “taxes, insurance, interest, advertising, office supplies, law expenses, injuries and damages, telegraph and telephone service, gas, and all other sundries not reported elsewhere.”
page 181,
- In 1902 franchise values were largely carried as sundries , but it is a very common practice to charge these values to cost of construction and equipment.
unnumbered page,
- Any payment listed in the Sundries column must be posted individually to the appropriate ledger account.
page 105,
- The petty cash book classifies payments as petrol and oils, postage, office, sundries and GST paid.
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- The wicketkeeper for Williamstown had a bad day, as sundries topped the score with 30.
page 167,
- In the modern era I sometimes feel the emphasis has erroneously shifted towards placing unwarranted importance on how few sundries are recorded.
page 145,
- As for sundries , these are very often caused by erratic bowling or a nasty pitch.