Buy vs Garner - What's the difference?
buy | garner |
To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods
* Benjamin Franklin
To obtain by some sacrifice.
* Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 23
To bribe.
To be equivalent to in value.
(informal) to accept as true; to believe
To make a purchase or purchases, to treat (for a meal)
(poker slang) To make a bluff, usually a large one.
A granary; a store of grain.
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An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
* 1835 ,
* 1913 , in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
* 1956 ,
(often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact; to reap.
* 1983 ,
* 1999 ,
(rare) to gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
* 1849 ,
As a verb buy
is to obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.As a noun buy
is something which is bought; a purchase.As a proper noun garner is
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English
Verb
- Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.
- Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Synonyms
* purchase * (accept as true) accept, believe, swallow (informal), take on * make a buyAntonyms
* sell, vend * (accept as true) disbelieve, reject, pitchDerived terms
* bring-and-buy * buyable * buyer * buy back * buy into * buy it * buy to let * buy off * buy out * buy someone off * buy someone out * buy straw hats in winter * buy the farm * buy time * buy up * can I buy you a drink * impulse buy * money can't buy happiness * outbuy * rebuyAntonyms
* saleDerived terms
* buydown * buyout * impulse buygarner
English
Noun
(en noun)- That'' our garners ''may be'' full, affording all manner of store: ''that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.
- Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner ; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Verb
(en verb)- I walked enormous distances...garnering thoughts even from the heather.
- He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
- ...its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
- He garnered a reputation as a language expert.
- Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.
- His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.
- This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.
- President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women...
- For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;