different between employ vs chore

English

Alternative forms

• imploy (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French employer, from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve, engage”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). Compare imply and implicate, which are doublets of employ .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?pl??/, /?m?pl??/

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

employ (plural employs)

1. The state of being an employee; employment.
2. (obsolete) The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.

Verb

employ (third-person singular simple present employs, present participle employing, simple past and past participle employed)

1. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
   • 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547

     Andrew Hou?toun and Adam Mu?het, being Tack?men of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
2. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene iii:

     Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you / against the general enemy Ottoman.
3. To make busy.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene viii:

     Let it not enter in your mind of love: / Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts / to courtship and such fair ostents of love / as shall conveniently become you there

Synonyms

• (to give someone work): hire
• (to put into use): apply, use, utilize

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• polemy

English

Etymology 1

From earlier char, from Middle English charr, charre, cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ?err, ?ierr (“a turn”), from ?ierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijan? (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).

Cognate with Dutch keer (“time; turn; occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn; bend; wind; back-flip; u-turn”). Also related to Saterland Frisian kiere, käire (“to turn”), Old Saxon k?rian, Old High German ch?ran (“to turn”) (German kehren (“to turn”), Dutch keren (“to turn”)). See also char.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (General American) enPR: chôr, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA^(key): /t?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /t?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

chore (plural chores)

1. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.

Derived terms

• choreful
• choreless
• chorelike
• choresome
• chore wheel

Translations

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

1. (US, dated) To do chores.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chore”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

Possibly derived from Romani ?or (“thief”), see also Geordie word chor.

Alternative forms

• chor (Geordie)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA^(key): /t?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /t?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

2. (Britain, informal) To steal.

Synonyms

• steal (standard English)
• thieve (standard English)
• twoc (Geordie)

Etymology 3

Noun

chore (plural chores)

1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood

     On every wall, and sung where e'er I walk. I number these, as being of the chore

Anagrams

• Roche, ocher, ochre, roche

Latin

Noun

chore

1. vocative singular of chorus

Lower Sorbian

Adjective

chore

1. Superseded spelling of chóre.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?.r?/

Adjective

chore

1. inflection of chory:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Portuguese

Verb

chore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of chorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of chorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of chorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of chorar