Veteran vs Able - What's the difference?
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A person with long experience of a particular activity.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service.
Having had long experience, practice, or service.
* Macaulay
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.
(obsolete, passive) Easy to use.
* 1710 , Thomas Betterton, The life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the late eminent tragedian. :
(obsolete, passive) Suitable; competent.
* 2006 , Jon L. Wakelyn, America's Founding Charters: Primary Documents of Colonial and Revolutionary Era Governance, Volume 1 , Greenwood Publishing Group, pages 212:
(obsolete, dialectal, passive) Liable to.
Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.
Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
(obsolete, dialectal) Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
(obsolete) Rich; well-to-do.
Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
(legal) Legally]] [[qualify, qualified or competent.
(nautical) Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
(obsolete) To make ready.
(obsolete) To make capable; to enable.
(obsolete) To dress.
(obsolete) To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
(obsolete) To vouch for; to guarantee.
* vi
A word that is used in place of the letter "A" during communication.
Veteran is a related term of able.
As nouns the difference between veteran and able
is that veteran is veteran while able is a word that is used in place of the letter "a" during communication.As an adjective able is
(obsolete|passive) easy to use .As a verb able is
(obsolete) to make ready .veteran
English
(wikipedia veteran)Noun
(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
Derived terms
* Veterans DayAdjective
(-)- The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers.
citation, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
Anagrams
* ----able
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete) hableEtymology 1
From (etyl), from .Adjective
(er)- As the hands are the most habil parts of the body...
- ...and for every able man servant that he or she shall carry or send armed and provided as aforesaid, ninety acres of land of like measure.
- I’ll see you as soon as I’m able .
- With that obstacle removed, I am now able to proceed with my plan.
- I’m only able to visit you when I have other work here.
- That cliff is able to be climbed.
- After the past week of forced marches, only half the men are fully able .
- He was born to an able family.
- The chairman was also an able sailor.
- He is able to practice law in six states.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* ability * -able * able-bodied * able seaman * ableism * be able, be able to * capable * disable * disabled * disablism * disability * enableVerb
(abl)- None does offend, none....I’ll able ’em.