Ticket vs Raffle - What's the difference?
ticket | raffle |
A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
A citation for a traffic violation.
A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally Internet Service Provider related).
(informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
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, title=Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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, passage="Here's the ticket . This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."}}
(dated) A little note or notice.
* Fuller
(dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket'' and eventually ''on tick ).
* J. Cotgrave
A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
A drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.
(obsolete) A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.
To participate in a raffle.
As nouns the difference between ticket and raffle
is that ticket is ticket while raffle is a drawing, often held as a fundraiser, in which tickets or chances are sold to win a prize.As a verb raffle is
to award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off.ticket
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.
- Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket .
- That's the ticket .
- I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
- He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.
- Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.
Derived terms
* automatic ticket sampling machine * golden ticket * have tickets on oneself * lottery ticket * one-way ticket * that's the ticket * ticket machine * write one's own ticketSee also
* (wikipedia "ticket")Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* ticket offraffle
English
Noun
(en noun)- He entered a raffle to win a lifetime supply of toothpaste, but he did not win.
- (Cotgrave)
Derived terms
* meat raffleVerb
- They raffled off four gift baskets.
- to raffle for a watch