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Ware vs Instrumentality - What's the difference?

ware | instrumentality |

As a verb ware

is .

As a noun instrumentality is

(uncountable) the quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.

ware

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (poetic) aware
    • Usage notes
    Replaced by intensified form aware.
    Derived terms
    * beware

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
    • (Wyclif)

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable, usually, in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
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  • (in the plural) See wares .
  • (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
    • damascene ware''', ''tole ' ware
  • (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
  • (Ireland) Crockery
    • Derived terms
    * (Corded Ware culture) * -ware

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) warian

    Verb

    (war)
  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) To beware of something.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) wary; cautious
  • * Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 15
    • Of whom be thou ware also.
  • * Latimer
    • He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition.
    Derived terms
    * wary
    Related terms
    * ward

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) seaweed
    • Derived terms
    * ware goose

    Etymology 5

    Verb

    (war)
  • (nautical) To wear, or veer.

    • References

    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    instrumentality

    English

    Noun

    (instrumentalities)
  • (uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.
  • *1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 294:
  • *:In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the ‘great design’ which he wished to establish through her instrumentality .
  • (countable, legal) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
  • *1994 , :
  • *:Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
  • (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument
  • *{{quote-book, year=1838, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Helen Hunt Jackson, title=Bits About Home Matters, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Samuel F. B. Morse, title=Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=God works by instrumentalities , and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance. }}