different between leave vs agreement

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /li?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /liv/
• Rhymes: -i?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English leven, from Old English l?fan (“to leave”), from Proto-Germanic *laibijan? (“to let stay, leave”), causative of *l?ban? (“to stay, remain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick; fat”). Cognate with Old Frisian l?va (“to leave”), Old Saxon l?vian, Old High German leiban (“to leave”), Old Norse leifa (“to leave over”) (whence Icelandic leifa (“to leave food uneaten”)), lifna (“to be left”) (whence Danish levne). More at lave, belive.

Verb

leave (third-person singular simple present leaves, present participle leaving, simple past and past participle left)

1. To have a consequence or remnant.
   1. (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
   2. (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.
   3. (transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.

      • Leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way.

      • The foot / That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.

2. To depart; to separate from.
   1. To let be or do without interference.

   2. (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
   3. (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
      • 2018, The Independent, "Brexit: Theresa May 'not bluffing' in threat to leave EU without a deal, Tory minister Liam Fox says"

        If we were to leave, the economic impact on a number of European countries would be severe.

   4. (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.

3. To transfer something.
   1. (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.

   2. (transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.

   3. (transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

5. (transitive, archaic) To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke V:

     When he had leeft speakynge, he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nette to make a draught.

   • 1716 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Basset-Table. An Eclogue.[1]

     Now leave Complaining, and begin your Tea.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to end one's connection with): depart, forget, leave behind

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Formed in English by conversion (anthimeria) of the transitive verb leave (“cause or allow to remain available”). Attested since the 19th century, with earliest references to billiards.

Noun

leave (plural leaves)

1. (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
2. (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).

Etymology 3

From Middle English leve, from Old English l?af (“permission, privilege”), from Proto-Germanic *laub?, *laub? (“permission, privilege, favour, worth”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“to love, hold dear”). Cognate with obsolete German Laube (“permission”), Swedish lov (“permission”), Icelandic leyfi (“permission”). Related to Dutch verlof, German Erlaubnis. See also love.

Noun

leave (countable and uncountable, plural leaves)

1. Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.

3. (dated or law) Permission.
4. (dated) Farewell, departure.

Synonyms

• (permission to be absent): annual leave, holiday; see also Thesaurus:vacation
• (permission): authorisation, consent

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English leven, from Old English l?efan (“to allow, grant, concede; believe, trust, confide in”), from Proto-Germanic *laubijan? (“to allow, praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?- (“to love, hold dear”). Cognate with German lauben (“to allow, believe”), Icelandic leyfa (“to allow”).

Verb

leave (third-person singular simple present leaves, present participle leaving, simple past and past participle leaved or left)

1. (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.

Etymology 5

From Middle English leven, from lef (“leaf”). More at leaf.

Verb

leave (third-person singular simple present leaves, present participle leaving, simple past and past participle leaved)

1. (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
   • 1868, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 2nd edition:

     Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:

     Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

Synonyms

• leaf (verb)

Translations

Etymology 6

From French lever. Compare levy. Compare also Middle English leve, a variant of levy that may have been monosyllabic.

Verb

leave (third-person singular simple present leaves, present participle leaving, simple past and past participle leaved)

1. (obsolete) To raise; to levy.

References

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

Anagrams

• Veale, veale

English

Etymology

From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.

Morphologically agree +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????i?m?nt/

Noun

agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)

1. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

2. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

3. (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
4. (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

   • Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.

5. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
   • 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":

     Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].

Synonyms

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
• (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
• (A legally binding contract): settlement
• (linguistics, grammar): concord, concordance
• (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness

Coordinate terms

• (linguistics, grammar): rection

Hyponyms

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• consent, approval

See also

• consensus
• agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English agreement.

Noun

agreement m (invariable)

1. agreement (pact, accord)

Anagrams

• magnerete
• mangerete

Middle English

Noun

agreement

1. Alternative form of agrement