different between earn vs pickup

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

Alternative forms

• pick-up
• pick up

Etymology

From pick +? up.

Noun

pickup (countable and uncountable, plural pickups)

1. An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.
   1. In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.
   2. electromagnetic coil receiver of metal string oscillations
2. (US, Canada) A pickup truck.
3. (usually attributive) Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players.

   Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play pickup.

   At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.

   • 2010, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Peter Carey: A Literary Companion (page 100)

     Trevor, like an Aussie outbacker, eats snacks and a pickup meal of bread, cantaloupe, olives, mangoes, and melon.

4. An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter. See also pick-up line, pick-up joint, pickup artist.

   Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pickup, I'm not interested.

5. A person successfully approached in this manner for romance or sex.
   • 2002, James A. Abrahamson, Confessions of a Diplomatic Pouch Clerk (page 192)

     Audball's latest pickup didn't seem to care where they were, or anything at all about alimony, palimony, or child support […]

6. (sports) In various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
7. (video games) An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.
   • 1991, James Leach, Turrican II (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 69

     Every step of the way you come across absolutely loads of aliens, pick-ups and new and weird obstacles to overcome.

   • 2002, Acclaim Entertainment, Turok Evolution: The official strategy guide (page 73)

     Enter the graveyard if you want pick-ups, otherwise make a left under the archways to progress. When the pathway ends, you'll see two blocked-off tunnels and a switch between them.

8. (US, Canada) The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate. See also gain

   The returns from the election show Apple Party candidate Jane Doe has made a pickup in the district of City West defeating Orange Party Incumbent Joe Smith

9. The act of answering a telephone.
   • 2006, Georgina Spelvin, The Devil Made Me Do It, Little Red Hen Books (2008), ?ISBN, page 224:

     That's why the phone at the theater's on automatic pickup.

10. (film) A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.
11. The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle.
12. (uncountable) A time during which passengers, such as school children, are picked up.

Descendants

Translations

Portuguese

Noun

pickup f (plural pickups)

1. Alternative form of picape

Spanish

Noun

pickup m or f (plural pickups)

1. pickup (vehicle)