different between proceeds vs aftermath

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, noun) IPA^(key): /?p???si?dz/
• (General American, noun) enPR: pr??s?dz, IPA^(key): /?p?o?sidz/
• (verb) enPR: pr?-s?dz?, IPA^(key): /p???si?dz/

Noun

proceeds pl (plural only)

1. Revenue; gross revenue.

   They will donate all proceeds—the entire amount collected in ticket sales—from the show to charity.

2. Profit; net revenue.

   They will donate net proceeds—whatever money is left after they pay their expenses—from the show to charity.

Translations

Verb

proceeds

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proceed

Anagrams

• precodes, rescoped

English

Etymology

From after- +? math (“a mowing”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æf.t?.?mæ?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???f.t?.?m???/, /?æf.t?.?mæ?/

Noun

aftermath (plural aftermaths)

1. (obsolete, agriculture) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.
   • 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:

     They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay.

2. That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.

   In contrast to most projections of the aftermath of nuclear war, in this there is no rioting or looting.

Related terms

• beforemath

Translations

Anagrams

• hamfatter