Trust vs Stead - What's the difference?

Trust is a related term of stead.

As nouns the difference between trust and stead

is that trust is confidence in or reliance on some person or quality while stead is (label) a place, or spot, in general.

As verbs the difference between trust and stead

is that trust is to place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in while stead is to help; to support; to benefit; to assist.

As an adjective trust

is (obsolete) secure, safe.

trust

English

Noun

(en noun)

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.

* John Locke

Most take things upon trust .

1671', O ever-failing '''trust / In mortal strength! — John Milton, ''Samson Agonistes

Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

1611', Such '''trust have we through Christ. — ''Authorised Version , 2 Corinthians iii:4.

Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.

I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust .

That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.

That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

* Bible, Psalms, lxxi. 5

O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.

(rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.

The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.

* Shakespeare

[I] serve him truly that will put me in trust .

* Denham

Reward them well, if they observe their trust .

(legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.

I put the house into my sister's trust .

(legal) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another.

A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.

(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

Synonyms

* belief * confidence * expectation * faith * hope

Antonyms

* mistrust

Derived terms

* beef trust * brain trust * brains trust * constructive trust * honorary trust * partial trust * remainder trust * resulting trust * spendthrift trust * trust fall * trust fund * trust territory * trustworthy

Verb

(en verb)

To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in.

We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.

In God We Trust - written on denominations of US currency

* (rfdate)

I will never trust his word after.

* (rfdate)

He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.

To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

* (rfdate)

Trust me, you look well.

To hope confidently; to believe; usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.

* (rfdate) 2 John 12.

I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.

* (rfdate) Heb. xiii. 18.

We trust we have a good conscience.

I trust you have cleaned your room?

to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.

* (rfdate) .

Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust , Now to suspect is vain.''

To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.

* (rfdate) .

Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.

To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

* Johnson

It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust .

To risk; to venture confidently.

* (rfdate)

[Beguiled] by thee to trust thee from my side.

To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

* (rfdate)

More to know could not be more to trust .

To be confident, as of something future; to hope.

* (rfdate) Isa. xii. 2

I will trust and not be afraid.

To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

* (rfdate) Johnson

It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust .

Derived terms

* trustable * trustee * truster * trustor

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Secure, safe.

(obsolete) Faithful, dependable.

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Anagrams

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stead

English

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A place, or spot, in general.

*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faery Queene , II:

*:For he ne wonneth in one certaine stead , / But restlesse walketh all the world around.

(label) A place where a person normally rests; a seat.

*1633 , P. Fletcher, Purple Island :

*:There now the hart, fearlesse of greyhound, feeds, / And loving pelican in safety breeds; / There shrieking satyres fill the people's emptie steads .

(label) A specific place or point on a body or other surface.

*, Bk.VII:

*:Thus they fought two houres& in many stedys they were wounded.

(label) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc.

(label) An estate, a property with its grounds; a farm.

*1889 , H. Rider Haggard, Allan's Wife :

*:But of course I could not do this by myself, so I took a Hottentot—a very clever man when he was not drunk—who lived on the stead , into my confidence.

(label) The frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:The genial bed / Sallow the feet, the borders, and the stead .

*1818 , Jane Austen, Persuasion :

*:She was so wretched and so vehement, complained so much of injustice in being expected to go away instead of Anne; Anne, who was nothing to Louisa, while she was her sister, and had the best right to stay in Henrietta's stead !

*2011 , "Kin selection", The Economist , 31 March:

*:Had Daniel Ortega not got himself illegally on to this year’s ballot to seek a third term, his wife might have run in his stead .

Figuratively, an emotional or circumstantial "place" having specified advantages, qualities etc. (now only in phrases).

*2010 , Dan van der Vat, The Guardian , 19 September:

*:Though small and delicate-looking, she gave an impression of intense earnestness and latent toughness, qualities that stood her in good stead when she dared to challenge the most intrusive communist society in eastern Europe.

Derived terms

* bedstead * homestead * in good stead * in one's stead * instead * sunstead * workstead

Verb

(en verb)

To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.

* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2

Some food we had and some fresh water that / A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, / Out of his charity,—who being then appointed / Master of this design,—did give us, with / Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, / Which since have steaded much: [...]

To fill place of.

Anagrams

* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)