different between advantage vs resource

English

Alternative forms

• advauntage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English avantage, avauntage, from Old French avantage, from avant (“before”), from Medieval Latin abante. The spelling with d was a mistake, a- being supposed to be from Latin ad (see advance). For sense development, compare foredeal.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?v??n.t?d?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?væn.(t)?d?/

Noun

advantage (countable and uncountable, plural advantages)

1. (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end.
2. (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
3. (countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit

4. (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
5. (soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
6. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

Synonyms

• foredeal, benefit, value, edge
• vantage

Antonyms

• disadvantage, drawback

Derived terms

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ressource, from Old French resourse, resource (“a source, spring”), from resourdre, from Latin resurg? (“to rise again, spring up anew”). See resourd, resurgent, source.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???s??s/, /???z??s/, /??i?s??s/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /??is??s/, /???z??s/, /???s??s/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /??i(?)so(?)?s/, /???zo(?)?s/, /???so(?)?s/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???so?s/, /???zo?s/, /??i?so?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Noun

resource (plural resources)

1. Something that one uses to achieve an objective, e.g. raw materials or personnel.
2. A person's capacity to deal with difficulty.

Derived terms

Related terms

• source

Translations

See also

• means

References

• resource in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• resource in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

resource (third-person singular simple present resources, present participle resourcing, simple past and past participle resourced)

1. To supply with resources.

Translations

Anagrams

• recourse

Old French

Etymology

From the past participle of the verb resourdre, itself from Latin resurg?.

Noun

resource f (oblique plural resources, nominative singular resource, nominative plural resources)

1. act of raising

Descendants

• ? English: resource
• French: ressource