Thrill vs Interest - What's the difference?
thrill | interest | Related terms |
(ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
* 1937 , Frank Churchill and Leigh Harline, “One Song”, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , Walt Disney:
* M. Arnold
* Spenser
(ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
(obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
* Heywood
A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill .}}
A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
(medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
(label) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
* , chapter=1
, title= (label) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
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, title= (label) A business or amorous link or involvement.
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, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (label) Something one is interested in.
Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
*, II.12:
The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
* Ford
(obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
* Hooker
Thrill is a related term of interest.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between thrill and interest
is that thrill is (obsolete) to hurl; to throw; to cast while interest is (obsolete) to cause or permit to share.As verbs the difference between thrill and interest
is that thrill is (ergative) to suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation while interest is to engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.As nouns the difference between thrill and interest
is that thrill is a trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion while interest is .thrill
English
Verb
(en verb)- One love / That has possessed me; / One love / Thrilling me through
- vivid and picturesque turns of expression which thrill the reader with sudden delight
- The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled , / That sudden cold did run through every vein.
- He pierced through his chafed chest / With thrilling point of deadly iron brand.
- I'll thrill my javelin.
Noun
(en noun)George Goodchild
Derived terms
* cheap thrill * thrill kill / thrill killing * thrill killer * thrillyinterest
English
Alternative forms
* enterest * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
Standing orders, passage=Over the past few years, however, interest has waxed again. A series of epidemiological studies, none big enough to be probative, but all pointing in the same direction, persuaded Emma Wilmot of the University of Leicester, in Britain, to carry out a meta-analysis. This is a technique that combines diverse studies in a statistically meaningful way.}}
Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
- How can this infinite beauty, power and goodnes admit any correspondencie or similitude with a thing so base and abject as we are, without extreme interest and manifest derogation from his divine greatnesse?
Synonyms
* (fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed) cost of moneyDerived terms
(Financial terms) * accrued interest * beneficial interest * capitalized interest * carried interest * compound interest * consumer interest * controlling interest * defered interest bond * earnings before interest and taxes * exact interest * imputed interest * indication of interest * insurable interest * interest-bearing * interest cover * interest expense * interest rate * interest-sensitive * minority interest * nominee interest * open interest * ordinary interest * pooling of interest * prepaid interest * security interest * short interest * simple interest * true interest cost * unearned interest (Non-financial terms) * by-interest * conflict of interest * future interest * human interest * interest group * legal interest * life interest * love interest * marine interest * place of interest * public interest * royalty interest * self-interest * special interest * terminable interest * undivided interest * vested interest * working interestVerb
(en verb)- It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
- Action films don't really interest me.
- Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.
- The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.
