Cosy vs. Cost — What's the Difference?

Variant of cozy.

In production, research, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something or deliver a service, and hence is not available for use anymore. In business, the cost may be one of acquisition, in which case the amount of money expended to acquire it is counted as cost.

Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social

An amount paid or required in payment for a purchase; a price.

Warm and comfortable.

The expenditure of something, such as time or labor, necessary for the attainment of a goal

A padded or knit covering put on an item to keep it warm, especially a teapot or egg.

Costs(Law) Charges incurred in bringing litigation, including court fees and charges that may be payable by the losing party, but usually not including attorneys' fees.

A padded or knit covering for any item (often an electronic device such as a laptop computer).

To require a specified payment, expenditure, effort, or loss

A work of crime fiction in which sex and violence are downplayed or treated humorously, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community.

To have as a price.

To become snug and comfortable.

To cause to lose, suffer, or sacrifice

To become friendly with.

Past tense and past participle costed To estimate or determine the cost of

See Cozy.

To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.

A padded cloth covering to keep a teapot warm

To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.

Enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space;

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

To calculate or estimate a price.

Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.

A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.

(obsolete) Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.en

Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.

(obsolete) A rib; a side.

(heraldry) A cottise.

A rib; a side; a region or coast.

See Cottise.

The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.

Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

Expenses incurred in litigation.

To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor

The property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold);

Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something;

Be priced at;

Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice;