Cure vs. Sinecure — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cure and Sinecure
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Cure
A cure is a substance or procedure that ends a medical condition, such as a medication, a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle or even a philosophical mindset that helps end a person's sufferings; or the state of being healed, or cured. The medical condition could be a disease, mental illness, genetic disorder, or simply a condition a person considers socially undesirable, such as baldness or lack of breast tissue.
Sinecure
A sinecure ( or ; from Latin sine 'without' and cura 'care') is an office, carrying a salary or otherwise generating income, that requires or involves little or no responsibility, labour, or active service. The term originated in the medieval church, where it signified a post without any responsibility for the "cure [care] of souls", the regular liturgical and pastoral functions of a cleric, but came to be applied to any post, secular or ecclesiastical, that involved little or no actual work.
Cure
Relieve (a person or animal) of the symptoms of a disease or condition
He was cured of the disease
Sinecure
A position or office that requires little or no work but provides a salary.
Cure
Preserve (meat, fish, tobacco, or an animal skin) by salting, drying, or smoking
Home-cured ham
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Sinecure
(Archaic) An ecclesiastical benefice not attached to the spiritual duties of a parish.
Cure
A parish priest in a French-speaking country.
Sinecure
A position that requires no work but still gives an ample payment; a cushy job.
Cure
A drug or course of medical treatment used to restore health
Discovered a new cure for ulcers.
Sinecure
(historical) An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
Cure
Restoration of health; recovery from disease
The likelihood of cure.
Sinecure
Requiring no work for an ample reward.
Cure
Something that corrects or relieves a harmful or disturbing situation
The cats proved to be a good cure for our mouse problem.
Sinecure
Having the appearance of functionality without being of any actual use or purpose.
Cure
(Ecclesiastical) Spiritual charge or care, as of a priest for a congregation.
Sinecure
(transitive) To put or place in a sinecure.
Cure
The office or duties of a curate.
Sinecure
An ecclesiastical benefice without the care of souls.
Cure
The act or process of preserving a product.
Sinecure
Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service.
A lucrative sinecure in the Excise.
Cure
A parish priest, especially in a French-speaking community.
Sinecure
To put or place in a sinecure.
Cure
To cause to be free of a disease or unhealthy condition
Medicine that cured the patient of gout.
Sinecure
A benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached
Cure
To cause to be free of, to lose interest in, or to stop doing something
A remark that cured me of the illusion that I might be a good singer.
A bad reaction that cured him of the desire to smoke cigars.
A visit to the dentist that cured her of eating sweets.
Sinecure
An office that involves minimal duties
Cure
To eliminate (a disease, for example) from the body by medical or other treatment; cause recovery from
New antibiotics to cure infections.
Cure
To remove or remedy (something harmful or disturbing)
Cure a social evil.
Cure
To preserve (meat, for example), as by salting, smoking, or aging.
Cure
To prepare, preserve, or finish (a substance) by a chemical or physical process.
Cure
To vulcanize (rubber).
Cure
To effect a cure or recovery
A drug that cures without side effects.
Cure
To be prepared, preserved, or finished by a chemical or physical process
Hams curing in the smokehouse.
Cure
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
Cure
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
Cure
(figurative) A solution to a problem.
Cure
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
Cure
A process of solidification or gelling.
Cure
(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
Cure
(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
Cure
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
Cure
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
Cure
(transitive) To restore to health.
Unaided nature cured him.
Cure
(transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
Unaided nature cured his ailments.
Cure
(transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
Experience will cure him of his naïveté.
Cure
(transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
The smoke and heat cures the meat.
Cure
To preserve (food), typically by salting. is this sense distinct from the preceding one? another example might be useful
Cure
(intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
Cure
(intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.
Cure
(intransitive) To solidify or gel.
The parts were curing in the autoclave.
Cure
To become healed.
Cure
(obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
Cure
Care, heed, or attention.
Of study took he most cure and most heed.
Vicarages of greatcure, but small value.
Cure
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.
The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
Cure
Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
Cure
Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
Past hope! pastcure! past help.
I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
Cure
Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.
The proper cure of such prejudices.
Cure
A curate; a pardon.
Cure
To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; - said of a patient.
The child was cured from that very hour.
Cure
To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; - said of a malady.
To cure this deadly grief.
Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases.
Cure
To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.
I never knew any man cured of inattention.
Cure
To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.
Cure
To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
Cure
To restore health; to effect a cure.
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,Is able with the change to kill and cure.
Cure
To become healed.
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.
Cure
A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
Cure
Provide a cure for, make healthy again;
The treatment cured the boy's acne
The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to
Cure
Prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve;
Cure meats
Cure pickles
Cure
Make (substances) hard and improve their usability;
Cure resin
Cure
Be or become preserved;
The apricots cure in the sun
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