different between trust vs activity

English

Etymology

From Middle English truste (“trust, protection”), from Old Norse traust (“confidence, help, protection”), from Proto-Germanic *traust?, from Proto-Indo-European *drowsdom, from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“be firm, hard, solid”).

Akin to Danish trøst, tröst (“trust”), Saterland Frisian Traast (“comfort, solace”), West Frisian treast (“comfort, solace”), Dutch troost (“comfort, consolation”), German Trost (“comfort, consolation”), Gothic trausti (trausti, “alliance, pact”). More at true, tree.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?st, IPA^(key): /tr?st/, [t??st], [t??st], [t???-]
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /tr?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

trust (countable and uncountable, plural trusts)

1. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

   • taking things upon trust.

   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     O ever-failing trust / In mortal strength!

2. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
3. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.

4. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
5. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
6. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
7. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
   • 17th century, John Denham, Of Justice

     Reward them well, if they observe their trust.

8. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.

9. (law) An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.
10. A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.
11. (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

Synonyms

Antonyms

• distrust
• mistrust
• untrust
• wantrust

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

trust (third-person singular simple present trusts, present participle trusting, simple past and past participle trusted)

1. (transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Act I scene iv:

     I will never trust his word after.

   • October 5, 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 162

     He that trusts without reserve will at last be deceived.

2. (intransitive, with in) To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.

   ? official US motto

3. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
4. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)

   • I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.

   • We trust we have a good conscience.

5. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
6. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
   • .

     Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.

7. (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

8. (intransitive, followed by to) To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).

9. (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
10. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
    • I will trust and not be afraid.

11. (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Antonyms

• distrust
• mistrust

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

trust (comparative more trust, superlative most trust)

1. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
2. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
3. (law) of or relating to a trust.

Anagrams

• strut, sturt

French

Etymology

From English trust.

Pronunciation

• (France, Quebec) IPA^(key): /t?œst/

Noun

trust m (plural trusts)

1. a trust (a group of businessmen or traders)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English trust.

Noun

trust m (invariable)

1. trust (group of people)

Derived terms

• trust di cervelli (“brains trust”)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English trust.

Noun

trust m (plural trusts)

1. (finance) trust

English

Etymology

From Middle French activité, from Latin activitas. Equivalent to active +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æk?t?.v?.ti/, /æk?t?.v?.ti?/, /æk?t?.v?.ti/
• Rhymes: -?v?ti

Noun

activity (countable and uncountable, plural activities)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.

2. (countable) Something done as an action or a movement.

3. (countable) Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.

4. (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "activity": increased, decreased, high, low, volcanic, seismic, eruptive, intellectual, physical, mental, spiritual, muscular, cerebral, favorite, recreational, practical, cultural, artistic, literary, musical, political, diplomatic, military, domestic, voluntary, missionary, chemical, optical, productive, reproductive, industrial, commercial, etc.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:activity

Antonyms

• rest
• passivity

Derived terms

• activity book
• activity stream
• activity trap
• beehive of activity
• catalytic activity
• extravehicular activity
• hive of activity
• nonactivity
• optical activity
• overactivity
• radioactivity
• self-activity
• subactivity
• ultrahazardous activity
• underactivity
• zone of polarizing activity

Translations

Further reading

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