Consume vs. Purchase — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Consume and Purchase
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Consume
To take in as food; eat or drink up.
Purchase
Acquire (something) by paying for it; buy
Mr Gill spotted the manuscript at a local auction and purchased it for £1,500
Consume
To expend; use up
Engines that consume less fuel.
A project that consumed most of my time and energy.
Purchase
Haul up (a rope, cable, or anchor) by means of a pulley or lever.
Consume
To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
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Purchase
The action of buying something
She made her purchases carefully
The large number of videos currently available for purchase
Consume
To waste; squander.
Purchase
Firm contact or grip
The horse's hooves fought for purchase on the slippery pavement
An attempt to gain a purchase on the soft earth
Consume
To destroy totally; ravage
Flames that consumed the house.
A body consumed by cancer.
Purchase
To obtain in exchange for money or its equivalent; buy.
Consume
To absorb; engross
Consumed with jealousy.
Purchase
To acquire by effort; earn
Purchased the victory with the loss of many lives.
Consume
To purchase economic goods and services
A society that consumes as fast as it produces.
Purchase
To pull or haul by means of a mechanical device, such as a winch.
Consume
(transitive) To use up.
The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
Purchase
The act or an instance of buying
The sudden purchase of a car.
Consume
(transitive) To eat.
Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
Purchase
Something bought
That hat was a wise purchase.
Consume
(transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
Desire consumed him.
Purchase
A hold or position that allows the application of power, as in moving something
Got a purchase for her foot and climbed up.
Consume
(transitive) To destroy completely.
The building was consumed by fire.
Purchase
A device, such as a pulley, used to obtain mechanical advantage.
Consume
To waste away slowly.
Purchase
A means or advantage that allows the increase of power or influence.
Consume
To trade money for good or services as an individual.
In a materialistic society, individuals are taught to consume, consume, consume.
If you consume this product while in Japan, you may be subject to consumption tax.
Purchase
The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
They offer a free hamburger with the purchase of a drink.
Consume
(transitive) To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
The Internet has changed the way we consume news.
Purchase
That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
Consume
To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
If he were putting to my house the brandThat shall consume it.
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume.
Let me alone . . . that I may consume them.
Purchase
That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
He was pleased with his latest purchase.
Consume
To waste away slowly.
Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire,Consume away in sighs.
Purchase
(obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
Consume
Eat immoderately;
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Purchase
A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
Consume
Serve oneself to, or consume regularly;
Have another bowl of chicken soup!
I don't take sugar in my coffee
Purchase
Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
It is hard to get purchase on a nail without a pry bar or hammer.
Consume
Spend extravagantly;
Waste not, want not
Purchase
The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
Consume
Destroy completely;
The fire consumed the building
Purchase
The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
Consume
Use up (resources or materials);
This car consumes a lot of gas
We exhausted our savings
They run through 20 bottles of wine a week
Purchase
Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
Consume
Engage fully;
The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy
Purchase
To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
To purchase land, to purchase a house
Purchase
To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
Purchase
To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
To purchase favor with flattery
Purchase
To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
Purchase
To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
To purchase a cannon
Purchase
To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
Purchase
To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
Many aristocratic refugees' portable treasures purchased their safe passage and comfortable exile during the revolution.
Purchase
To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
That loves the thing he can not purchase.
Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.
His faults . . . hereditaryRather than purchased.
Purchase
To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth.
Purchase
To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.
One poor retiring minute . . . Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends.
A world who would not purchase with a bruise?
Purchase
To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
Not tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses.
Purchase
To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.
Purchase
To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.
Purchase
To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.
Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
Purchase
To acquire wealth or property.
Sure our lawyersWould not purchase half so fast.
Purchase
The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.
I'll . . . get meat to have thee,Or lose my life in the purchase.
Purchase
The act of seeking and acquiring property.
Purchase
The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
It is foolish to lay out money in the purchase of repentance.
Purchase
That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
We met with little purchase upon this coast, except two small vessels of Golconda.
A beauty-waning and distressed widow . . . Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye.
Purchase
That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
Purchase
Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained.
A politician, to do great things, looks for a power - what our workmen call a purchase.
Purchase
Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
Purchase
The acquisition of something for payment;
They closed the purchase with a handshake
Purchase
Something acquired by purchase
Purchase
A means of exerting influence or gaining advantage;
He could get no purchase on the situation
Purchase
The mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
Purchase
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
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