different between offer vs pursue

English

Alternative forms

• offre (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f?(?)/, /???f?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f?/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??f?/
• Rhymes: -?f?(?), -??f?(?)
• Hyphenation: of?fer

Etymology 1

From Middle English offer, from Old English offrian (“offer or make a sacrifice”) rather than from Old French offre (“offer”), from offrir (“to offer”), from Latin offer? (“to present, bring before”). Compare North Frisian offer (“sacrifice, donation, fee”), Dutch offer (“offering, sacrifice”), German Opfer (“victim, sacrifice”), Danish offer (“victim, sacrifice”), Icelandic offr (“offering”). See verb below.

Noun

offer (plural offers)

1. A proposal that has been made.
2. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.

3. (law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.

Derived terms

• make an offer

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English offren, offrien, from Old English offrian (“to offer, sacrifice, bring an oblation”), from Latin offer? (“to present, bestow, bring before”, literally “to bring to”), from Latin ob + fer? (“bring, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-, *b?r?- (“to carry, bear”), later reinforced by Old French offrir (“to offer”). Cognate with Old Frisian offria (“to offer”), Old Dutch offr?n (“to offer”), German opfern (“to offer”), Old Norse offra (“to offer”). More at ob-, bear.

Verb

offer (third-person singular simple present offers, present participle offering, simple past and past participle offered)

1. (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).

2. (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.

3. (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.

   • 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.
4. (transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus xxix. 36

     Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.

5. (transitive, engineering) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
6. (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.

7. (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.

   • The occasion offers, and the youth complies.
8. (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     I will not offer at that I cannot master.
9. (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to-infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Related terms

• offering
• offertory
• oblate
• oblation

Translations

Etymology 3

off +? -er

Noun

offer (plural offers)

1. (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off

Anagrams

• offre, reffo

Danish

Noun

offer n (singular definite ofret or offeret, plural indefinite ofre)

1. sacrifice
2. victim

Inflection

Derived terms

• slagteoffer
• ofre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f?r/
• Hyphenation: of?fer
• Rhymes: -?f?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch offere, from Old Dutch [Term?].

Noun

offer n (plural offers, diminutive offertje n)

1. sacrifice
2. victim

Derived terms

• brandoffer
• offeren
• plengoffer
• reukoffer
• slachtoffer
• zoenoffer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

offer

1. first-person singular present indicative of offeren
2. imperative of offeren

Latin

Verb

offer

1. second-person singular present active imperative of offer?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse offr

Noun

offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer or ofre, definite plural ofra or ofrene)

1. a sacrifice
2. a victim, a casualty

Derived terms

• dødsoffer
• selvmordsoffer

References

• “offer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse offr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?r/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer, definite plural offera)

1. a sacrifice
2. a victim, a casualty

Derived terms

• dødsoffer

References

• “offer” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse offr.

Pronunciation

Noun

offer n

1. sacrifice
2. victim

Declension

Anagrams

• Roffe

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin offerenda.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /??f?r/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /??far/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?o?f?r/, /??f?r/

Noun

offer f (plural offerau or offeriau or offrau)

1. equipment

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English pursuen, from Anglo-Norman pursure, poursuire etc., from Latin pr?sequor (though influenced by persequor). Doublet of prosecute.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??sju?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /p???u?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??su/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /p???u/

Verb

pursue (third-person singular simple present pursues, present participle pursuing, simple past and past participle pursued)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. [from 14th c.]
   • 1382–1395, John Wycliffe et al. (translators), John xv. 20

     The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have pursued me, they shall pursue you also.

   • 2009, Martin Chulov, ‘Iraqi shoe-thrower claims he suffered torture in jail’, The Guardian, 15 Sep 09:

     He now feared for his life, and believed US intelligence agents would pursue him.

2. (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). [from late 14th c.]

   Her rival pursued a quite different course.

3. (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). [from late 14th c.]
   • 2009, Benjamin Pogrund, ‘Freeze won't hurt Netanyahu’, The Guardian, 1 Dec 09:

     He even stands to gain in world terms: his noisy critics strengthen his projected image of a man determined to pursue peace with Palestinians.

4. (transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession). [from 15th c.]
5. (intransitive) To act as a legal prosecutor.

Derived terms

• pursuer

Related terms

• pursual
• pursuant
• pursuit

Translations

See also

• follow
• chase

Anagrams

• sure up