different between employ vs harness

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

From Middle English harneys, harnes, harneis, harnais, herneis, from Anglo-Norman harneis and Old French hernois (“equipment used in battle”), believed to be from Old Norse *hernest, from Old Norse heer (“army”) + nest (“provisions”). More at harry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??(?).n?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n?s

Noun

harness (countable and uncountable, plural harnesses)

1. (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps.
2. (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function.
3. (dated, uncountable) The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general.
   • 1606 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act V, scene V

     Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!

     At least we'll die with harness on our back.

4. The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
5. Equipment for any kind of labour.

Alternative forms

• harnass (rare, archaic)

Derived terms

• harnessed antelope
• harnessed moth
• test harness

Translations

Verb

harness (third-person singular simple present harnesses, present participle harnessing, simple past and past participle harnessed)

1. (transitive) To place a harness on something; to tie up or restrain.
2. (transitive) To capture, control or put to use.
3. (transitive) To equip with armour.

Translations

See also

• harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Harness in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Shaners