different between prospect vs belief

English

Etymology

From Latin prospectus, past participle of prospicere (“to look forward”), from pro (“before, forward”) + specere, spicere (“to look, to see”), equivalent to pro- +? -spect

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??sp?kt/
  • (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA^(key): /?p??sp?kt/
• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?-sp?kt?, IPA^(key): /p???sp?kt/
  • (General American) enPR: präs?p?kt, IPA^(key): /?p??sp?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: pros?pect

Noun

prospect (plural prospects)

1. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
2. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
3. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
4. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.

   • Their prospect was toward the south.

5. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.

   • a very ill prospect of a future state

   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?

6. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
7. A hope; a hopeful.
8. (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
9. (sales) A potential client or customer.
10. (music) The façade of an organ.

Translations

Verb

prospect (third-person singular simple present prospects, present participle prospecting, simple past and past participle prospected)

1. (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
2. (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

Translations

Anagrams

• croppest

Romanian

Etymology

From German Prospekt

Noun

prospect n (plural prospecte)

1. brochure

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English bileve, from Old English l?afa, from Proto-Germanic *laubô. Compare German Glaube (“faith, belief”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??li?f/, /b??li?f/
• Rhymes: -i?f
• Hyphenation: be?lief

Noun

belief (countable and uncountable, plural beliefs)

1. Mental acceptance of a claim as true.
2. Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.

3. (countable) Something believed.
4. (uncountable) The quality or state of believing.

5. (uncountable) Religious faith.

6. (in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.

Derived terms

• beliefful
• beyond belief
• disbelief
• forebelief
• self-belief
• unbelief
• wanbelief

Related terms

• believe

Translations

Anagrams

• befile, belfie

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

belief

1. imperative of believen

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b??li?f]
• Hyphenation: be?lief

Verb

belief

1. first-person singular preterite of belaufen
2. third-person singular preterite of belaufen