Vintage vs Thrift - What's the difference?
vintage | thrift |
The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
The year or place in which something is produced.
(attributively) Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
(attributively) Having an enduring appeal; high-quality, classic (such as video or computer games from the 1980s and early 1990s, or old magazines, etc.).
(attributively) Of a motor car, built between the years 1919 and (usually) 1930 (or sometimes 1919 to 1925 in the USA) .
Of a watch, produced between the years 1870 and 1980.
To harvest (grapes).
To make (wine) from grapes.
(uncountable) The characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).
* (rfdate) Spenser
* (Ambrose Bierce)
(countable, US) A savings bank.
(countable) Any of various plants of the genus Armeria , particularly .
(obsolete) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.
* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
* : Act I, Scene I:
(obsolete) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
As nouns the difference between vintage and thrift
is that vintage is the yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season while thrift is the characteristic of using a minimum of something (especially money).As an adjective vintage
is of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.As a verb vintage
is to harvest (grapes).vintage
English
(wikipedia vintage)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* make vintageAdjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* non-vintage, nonvintage * post-vintage thoroughbred * rack vintage * unvintaged * vintage audio * vintage base ball * vintage car * vintage chocolate * vintage clothing * vintage dance * vintage guitar * vintage jewellery, vintage jewelry * vintage model * vintager * vintage snowmobiling * vintage spring * vintage time * vintage wine * vintage yearVerb
(vintag)Derived terms
* vintagingSee also
* classic * veteranExternal links
* * ----thrift
English
(wikipedia thrift)Noun
- His thrift can be seen in how little the trashman takes from his house.
- The rest, willing to fall to thrift , prove very good husbands.
- Usually home mortgages are obtained from thrifts .
- Medleth na-more with that art, I mene, / For, if ye doon, your thrift is goon ful clene.
- I have a mind presages me such thrift .