buy
(verb) accept as true; “I can’t buy this story”
buy, purchase
(verb) obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; “The family purchased a new car”; “The conglomerate acquired a new company”; “She buys for the big department store”
buy
(verb) acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; “She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work”
bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms
(verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; “This judge can be bought”
buy
(verb) be worth or be capable of buying; “This sum will buy you a ride on the train”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
See buy.
bought
simple past tense and past participle of buy.
It is common to hear native English speakers (particularly in Australia, New Zealand and Britain) using "bought" when meaning "brought" (and vice versa) despite the fact that the two words mean different things . Sometimes this mistake makes its way into print.
bought (plural boughts)
(obsolete) A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
(obsolete) A bend or hollow in a human or animal body.
(obsolete) A curve or bend in a river, mountain chain, or other geographical feature.
(obsolete) The part of a sling that contains the stone.
(obsolete) A fold, bend, or coil in a tail, snake's body etc.
Source: Wiktionary
Bought, n. Etym: [Cf. Dan. bugt bend, turning, Icel. bug. Cf. Bight, Bout, and see Bow to bend.]
1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. [Obs.] Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne.
2. The part of a sling that contains the stone. [Obs.]
Bought,
Definition: imp. & p. p. of Buy.
Bought, p. a.
Definition: Purchased; bribed.
Buy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bought; p. pr. & vb. n. Buying.] Etym: [OE. buggen, buggen, bien, AS. bycgan, akin to OS. buggean, Goth. bugjan.]
1. To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell. Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou wilt sell thy necessaries. B. Franklin.
2. To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain. Buy the truth and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Prov. xxiii. 23. To buy again. See Againbuy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
– To buy off. (a) To influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party.
– To buy out (a) To buy off, or detach from. Shak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller is separated from the company, and the purchaser takes his place; as, A buys out B. (c) To purchase the entire stock in trade and the good will of a business.
– To buy in, to purchase stock in any fund or partnership.
– To buy on credit, to purchase, on a promise, in fact or in law, to make payment at a future day.
– To buy the refusal (of anything), to give a consideration for the right of purchasing, at a fixed price, at a future time.
Buy, v. i.
Definition: To negotiate or treat about a purchase. I will buy with you, sell with you. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 January 2025
(noun) an extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
