different between discount vs credit
discount
English
Etymology
Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomput? (“I deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + comput? (“I reckon, count”).
Pronunciation
- Verb:
- (in some senses) enPR: d?skount?, IPA(key): /d?s?ka?nt/
- (in some senses) enPR: d?s?kount, IPA(key): /?d?ska?nt/
- (in some senses) enPR: d?skount?, IPA(key): /d?s?ka?nt/
- Noun and adjective:
- enPR: d?s?kount, IPA(key): /?d?ska?nt/
- enPR: d?s?kount, IPA(key): /?d?ska?nt/
- Rhymes: -a?nt
Verb
discount (third-person singular simple present discounts, present participle discounting, simple past and past participle discounted)
- To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like.
- Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
- To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest
- 1692, William Walsh, Letter on the present state of the Currency of Great Britain
- Discount only unexceptionable paper.
- 1692, William Walsh, Letter on the present state of the Currency of Great Britain
- To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
- To leave out of account or regard as unimportant.
- Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.
- They discounted his comments.
- To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount
- (psychology, transactional analysis) To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
Translations
Noun
discount (plural discounts)
- A reduction in price.
- This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
- (finance) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
- The rate of interest charged in discounting.
- (psychology, transactional analysis) The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
Synonyms
- (reduction in price): rebate, reduction
Antonyms
- surcharge
Derived terms
- discountable
- quantity discount
- rediscount
Descendants
- German: Discount
Translations
Adjective
discount (not comparable)
- (of a store) Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
- If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.
Further reading
- discount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- discount in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- discount at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- conduits, ductions, noctuids
Italian
Etymology
From English discount.
Noun
discount m (invariable)
- discount store
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credit
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French crédit (“belief, trust”), from Latin cr?ditum (“a loan, credit”), neuter of cr?ditus, past participle of cr?dere (“to believe”). The verb is from the noun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??d?t/
- Rhymes: -?d?t
Verb
credit (third-person singular simple present credits, present participle crediting, simple past and past participle credited)
- (transitive) To believe; to put credence in.
- Synonyms: accept, believe
- (transitive, accounting) To add to an account.
- Antonym: debit
- (transitive) To acknowledge the contribution of.
- (transitive) To bring honour or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
- You credit the church as much by your government as you did the school formerly by your wit.
Related terms
Translations
Noun
credit (countable and uncountable, plural credits)
- Reliance on the truth of something said or done; faith; trust.
- When Jonathan and the people heard these words they gave no credit into them, nor received them.
- (uncountable) Recognition and respect.
- 1782, William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin
- John Gilpin was a citizen / Of credit and renown.
- 1782, William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin
- (countable) Acknowledgement of a contribution, especially in the performing arts.
- (television/film, usually in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.
- (uncountable, law, business, finance) A privilege of delayed payment extended to a buyer or borrower on the seller's or lender's belief that what is given will be repaid.
- The time given for payment for something sold on trust.
- (uncountable, US) A person's credit rating or creditworthiness, as represented by their history of borrowing and repayment (or non payment).
- (accounting) An addition to certain accounts; the side of an account on which payments received are entered.
- (tax accounting) A reduction in taxes owed, or a refund for excess taxes paid.
- A source of value, distinction or honour.
- 1836, Henry Francis Cary, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope., The Author's Preface
- I published, because I was told I might please such as it was a credit to please.
- 1836, Henry Francis Cary, The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope., The Author's Preface
- An arbitrary unit of value, often used in fictive or virtual currencies.
- (uncountable) Recognition for having taken a course (class).
- (countable) A course credit, a credit hour – used as measure if enough courses have been taken for graduation.
Synonyms
- (course credit, credit hour): unit
Derived terms
Related terms
- credible
Translations
References
- credit at OneLook Dictionary Search
- credit in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- credit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- direct, triced
Latin
Verb
cr?dit
- third-person singular present active indicative of cr?d?
Romanian
Etymology
From French crédit.
Noun
credit n (plural credite)
- credit
Declension
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /?kr?d?t/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /?kre?d?t/, /?kr?d?t/
Verb
credit (literary)
- second-person singular imperfect/conditional of credu
Noun
credit m (plural creditau)
- Alternative form of credyd (“credit”)
Mutation
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