different between earn vs accept

English

Etymology 1

From Old English earnian, from Middle English ernen, from Proto-West Germanic *a?an?n, from Proto-Germanic *azan?n?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n/
• (US) enPR: ûrn, IPA^(key): /?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophones: ern, erne, urn

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned or (chiefly UK) earnt)

1. (transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
2. (transitive) To receive payment for work.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. (intransitive) To receive payment for work.

4. (transitive) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
5. (transitive) To achieve by being worthy of.

Synonyms

• (gain through applied effort or work): deserve, merit, garner, win
• ((transitive) receive payment for work):
• ((intransitive) receive payment for work):
• (cause someone to receive payment or reward): yield, make, generate, render

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably either:

• from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands)  [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnen (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or
• a back-formation from earning (“(Britain regional, archaic) rennet”).

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned) (Britain, dialectal)

1. (transitive, archaic) To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.

   Synonyms: run, (Northern England, Scotland) yearn

2. (intransitive, obsolete) Of milk: to curdle, espcially in the cheesemaking process.

Etymology 3

A variant of yearn.

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve.

Etymology 4

Noun

earn (plural earns)

1. Alternative form of erne

References

Anagrams

• Arne, Near, Nera, eRNA, erna, nare, near, rean

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ér? (“eagle, large bird”). Cognate with Old Frisian *ern, Old Saxon *arn, Old Dutch *arn, Old High German arn, Old Norse ?rn, Gothic ???????????? (ara); and, outside the Germanic languages, with Ancient Greek ????? (órnis, “bird”), Old Armenian ???? (oror, “gull”), Old Irish irar, Lithuanian er?lis, Old Church Slavonic ????? (or?l?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??rn/, [æ??r?n]

Noun

earn m

1. eagle

Declension

Descendants

• English: erne

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *ern, from Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ér?.

Noun

earn c (plural earnen, diminutive earntsje)

1. eagle
2. (figuratively) miser

Further reading

• “earn”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

First attested about 1380. From Middle English accepten, borrowed from Old French accepter, or directly from Latin accept?, accept?re (“receive”), frequentative of accipi?, formed from ad- + capi? (“to take”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?s?pt/, /æk?s?pt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt
• Homophone: except (in some dialects)
• Hyphenation: ac?cept

Verb

accept (third-person singular simple present accepts, present participle accepting, simple past and past participle accepted)

1. (transitive) To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.
2. (transitive) To admit to a place or a group.

3. (transitive) To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

4. (transitive) To receive as adequate or satisfactory.
5. (transitive) To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

6. (transitive) To endure patiently.

7. (transitive, law, business) To agree to pay.
8. (transitive) To receive officially.

9. (intransitive) To receive something willingly.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• receive
• take
• withtake
• admit
• onfang (dialectal, obsolete)

Antonyms

• reject
• decline

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

accept (comparative more accept, superlative most accept)

1. (obsolete) Accepted.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ak?t??ept]

Etymology 1

From German Akzept, from Latin acceptus.

Noun

accept n (plural accepte)

1. acceptance

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

accept

1. first-person singular present indicative of accepta
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of accepta

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?s?p(t)]

Verb

accept (third-person singular present accepts, present participle acceptin, past acceptit, past participle acceptit)

1. accept

References

• Eagle, Andy, editor (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Swedish

Noun

accept c

1. (finance, business) a bill of exchange that has been accepted
2. (finance, business) the acceptance of a bill of exchange

Declension