Fun vs. Fund — What's the Difference?

Fun is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "Light-hearted pleasure, enjoyment, or amusement; boisterous joviality or merrymaking; entertainment". Although particularly associated with recreation and play, it may be encountered during working time.

A sum of money saved or made available for a particular purpose

Enjoyment, amusement, or light-hearted pleasure

Provide with money for a particular purpose

Amusing, entertaining, or enjoyable

A source of supply; a stock

Joke or tease

A sum of money or other resources set aside for a specific purpose

Enjoyment; amusement

Funds Available money; ready cash

A source of enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure

An organization established to administer and manage a sum of money.

To speak or act facetiously; joke or fool.

Funds The stock of the British permanent national debt, considered as public securities. Used with the.

To tease or speak playfully to.

To provide funds for

Enjoyable; amusing

To convert (short-term government debt) into a long-term or floating debt with fixed interest payments.

Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure

A sum or source of money.

Playful, often noisy, activity.

An organization managing such money.

(informal) Enjoyable or amusing.

A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.

(informal) Whimsical or flamboyant.

A large supply of something to be drawn upon.

(colloquial) To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.

(transitive) To pay or provide money for.

Sport; merriment; frolicsome amusement.

(transitive) To place (money) in a fund.

Activities that are enjoyable or amusing;

(transitive) To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.

Verbal wit (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously);

An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

Violent and excited activity;

A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

A disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement;

The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; - called also public funds.

Providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining;

An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.

A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense.

To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.

To place in a fund, as money.

To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.

A reserve of money set aside for some purpose

A supply of something available for future use;

A financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies

Convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds

Place or store up in a fund for accumulation

Provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest

Invest money in government securities

Accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability;

Furnish money for;