Venture vs Compromise - What's the difference?
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A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
* 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island . Chapter 4.
An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
* Shakespeare
To undertake a risky or daring journey.
* J. Dryden, Jr.
To risk or offer.
* Shakespeare
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at'' or ''on
To put or send on a venture or chance.
To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
* Addison
To say something.
The settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions.
* Shakespeare
* Burke
* Hallam
A committal to something derogatory or objectionable; a prejudicial concession; a surrender.
* Lamb
(ambitransitive) To bind by mutual agreement.
* Shakespeare
To adjust and settle by mutual concessions; to compound.
* Fuller
To find a way between extremes.
To pledge by some act or declaration; to endanger the life, reputation, etc., of, by some act which can not be recalled; to expose to suspicion.
* Motley
To cause impairment of.
To breach (a security system).
In transitive terms the difference between venture and compromise
is that venture is to say something while compromise is to breach (a security system).In intransitive terms the difference between venture and compromise
is that venture is to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or oncompromise is to find a way between extremes.venture
English
Noun
(en noun)- My heart was beating finely when we two set forth in the cold night upon this dangerous venture .
- (Francis Bacon)
- My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Verb
(ventur)- who freights a ship to venture on the seas
- to venture funds
- to venture a guess
- I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.
- Till then they had only exchanged glances of the most casual but now under the brim of her new hat she ventured a look at him and the face that met her gaze there in the twilight, wan and strangely drawn, seemed to her the saddest she had ever seen.
- to venture a horse to the West Indies
- A man would be well enough pleased to buy silks of one whom he would not venture to feel his pulse.
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English
(wikipedia compromise)Noun
(en noun)- But basely yielded upon compromise / That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows.
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions.
- a compromise of character or right
- I was determined not to accept any fine speeches, to the compromise of that sex the belonging to which was, after all, my strongest claim and title to them.
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(compromis)- Laban and himself were compromised / That all the eanlings which were streaked and pied / Should fall as Jacob's hire.
- The controversy may easily be compromised .
- To pardon all who had been compromised in the late disturbances.
- He tried to compromise the security in the computer by guessing the password.
