Usher vs Provide - What's the difference?
usher | provide |
A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
A male escort at a wedding.
A doorkeeper in a courtroom.
(dated) An underteacher, or assistant master, in a school.
To guide people to their seats.
* 1836 , , Sketches by Boz , "The curate. The old lady. The half-pay captain."
To accompany or escort (someone).
* 1898 , , The Rise of the Dutch Republic , page 509
(figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.
* 1912 , Elizabeth Christine Cook, Literary Influences in Colonial Newspapers, 1704-1750 , page 31
(figuratively) to lead or guide somewhere
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To make a living; earn money for necessities.
To act to prepare for something.
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
To furnish (with), cause to be present.
* Arbuthnot
To make possible or attainable.
* Milton
(obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor .
As verbs the difference between usher and provide
is that usher is to guide people to their seats while provide is to make a living; earn money for necessities.As a noun usher
is a person, in a church, cinema etc, who escorts people to their seats.usher
English
(wikipedia usher)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* usheretteVerb
- Her entrance into church on Sunday is always the signal for a little bustle in the side aisle, occasioned by a general rise among the poor people, who bow and curtsey until the pew-opener has ushered the old lady into her accustomed seat, dropped a respectful curtsey, and shut the door;
- Margaret was astonished at the magnificence of the apartments into which she was ushered .
- Thus the Harvard poets and wits ushered The New England Courant out of existence.
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Derived terms
* usher inAnagrams
* *provide
English
Verb
(provid)- It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
- The contract provides that the work be well done.
- I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.
- Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
- We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
- Rome was well provided with corn.
- He provides us with an alternative option.
- Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide .
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