Curtail vs. Entail — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Curtail and Entail
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Curtail
To cut short or reduce
We curtailed our conversation when other people entered the room.
Entail
Involve (something) as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence
A situation which entails considerable risks
Curtail
To cut short the tail of an animal
Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
Entail
Limit the inheritance of (property) over a number of generations so that ownership remains within a particular family or group
Her father's estate was entailed on a cousin
Curtail
(transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
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Entail
A limitation of the inheritance of property to certain heirs over a number of generations
Landed property was governed by primogeniture and entail
The damage being done in England by entails
Curtail
To limit or restrict, keep in check.
Entail
To have, impose, or require as a necessary accompaniment or consequence
The investment entailed a high risk. The proposition X is a rose entails the proposition X is a flower because all roses are flowers.
Curtail
(architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
Entail
To limit the inheritance of (property) to a specified succession of heirs.
Curtail
To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion.
Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled.
Entail
To bestow or impose on a person or a specified succession of heirs.
Curtail
The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Entail
The act of entailing, especially property.
Curtail
Place restrictions on;
Curtail drinking in school
Entail
The state of being entailed.
Curtail
Terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent;
My speech was cut short
Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries
Entail
An entailed estate.
Entail
A predetermined order of succession, as to an estate or to an office.
Entail
Something transmitted as if by unalterable inheritance.
Entail
(transitive) To imply, require, or invoke.
This activity will entail careful attention to detail.
Entail
(transitive) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as a heritage.
Entail
To appoint hereditary possessor.
Entail
To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
Entail
That which is entailed.
Entail
An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
Entail
The rule by which the descent is fixed.
Entail
(obsolete) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
Entail
That which is entailed.
A power of breaking the ancient entails, and of alienating their estates.
Entail
Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
Entail
To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; - said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
Allowing them to entail their estates.
I here entailThe crown to thee and to thine heirs forever.
Entail
To appoint hereditary possessor.
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown.
Entail
To cut or carve in an ornamental way.
Entailed with curious antics.
Entail
Land received by fee tail
Entail
The act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple
Entail
Have as a logical consequence;
The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers
Entail
Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result;
What does this move entail?
Entail
Limit the inheritance of property to a specific class of heirs
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