Volunteer vs Insist - What's the difference?
volunteer | insist |
One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.
(label) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
(label) A person who acts out of his own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
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A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
(label) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
(label) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
(label) To offer.
To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
To hold up a claim emphatically.
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, title= To demand continually that something happen or be done.
To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).
* 1709 , Venturus Mandey, Synopsis Mathematica Universalis
As verbs the difference between volunteer and insist
is that volunteer is (label) to enlist oneself as a volunteer while insist is to hold up a claim emphatically.As a noun volunteer
is one who enters into, or offers for, any service of his/her own free will, especially when done without pay.volunteer
English
(wikipedia volunteer)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to volunteer for doing the dishes
- to volunteer an explanation
- My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.
References
*insist
English
Alternative forms
* ensistVerb
(en verb)- (I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist . Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.