Gage vs. Pledge — What's the Difference?

A valued object deposited as a guarantee of good faith.

A solemn promise or undertaking

Variant spelling of gauge

A thing that is given as security for the fulfilment of a contract or the payment of a debt and is liable to forfeiture in the event of failure

Another term for greengage

The drinking of a person's health; a toast.

Offer (an object or one's life) as a guarantee of good faith

Commit (a person or organization) by a solemn promise

Variant spelling of gauge

Give as security on a loan

Something deposited or given as security against an obligation; a pledge.

Drink to the health of

Something, such as a glove, that is offered or thrown down as a pledge or challenge to fight.

A solemn binding promise to do, give, or refrain from doing something

A challenge.

Something given or held as security to guarantee payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation.

Any of several varieties of plum, such as the greengage.

The condition of something thus given or held

Variant of gauge.

Delivery of goods or personal property as security for a debt or obligation

To pledge as security.

The contract or transaction stipulating or involving such delivery.

To offer as a stake in a bet; wager.

A token or sign

To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

A person who has been accepted for membership in a fraternity or similar organization and has promised to join but has not yet been initiated.

(archaic) To wager, to bet.

A vow to abstain from alcoholic liquor

(obsolete) To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn.

(Archaic) The act of drinking in honor of someone; a toast.

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To offer or guarantee by a solemn binding promise

Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).

To bind or secure by a pledge or promise

(obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

To deposit as security; pawn.

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To promise to join (a fraternity or similar organization).

A subspecies of plum, Prunus domestica subsp. italica.

To accept as a prospective member of such an organization.

A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.

(Archaic) To drink a toast to.

A glove, cap, or the like, cast on the ground as a challenge to combat, and to be taken up by the accepter of the challenge; a challenge; a defiance.

To make a solemn binding promise; swear.

A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.

(Archaic) To drink a toast.

To give or deposit as a pledge or security for some act; to wage or wager; to pawn or pledge.

To make a solemn promise (to do something).

To bind by pledge, or security; to engage.

To deposit something as a security; to pawn.

Street names for marijuana

(transitive) To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health.

A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.

A solemn promise to do something.

Place a bet on;

A promise to abstain from drinking alcohol.

An asset or person temporarily handed over to guarantee the fulfilment of something promised, under threat of permanent loss of the thing handed over; surety, security, hostage.

(law) A bailment of personal property to secure payment of a debt without transfer of title.

The personal property so pledged, to be kept until the debt is paid.

(college slang) A person who has taken a pledge of allegiance to a college fraternity, but is not yet formally approved.

A drinking toast.

The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.

A person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage.

A hypothecation without transfer of possession.

Anything given or considered as a security for the performance of an act; a guarantee; as, mutual interest is the best pledge for the performance of treaties.

A promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do, or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges.

A sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health.

To deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch.

To give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor.

To secure performance of, as by a pledge.

To bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage solemnly; as, to pledge one's self.

To invite another to drink, by drinking of the cup first, and then handing it to him, as a pledge of good will; hence, to drink the health of; to toast.

A deposit of personal property as security for a debt;

Someone accepted for membership but not yet fully admitted to the group

A drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

A binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something;

Promise solemnly and formally;

Pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals;

Propose a toast to;

Give as a guarantee;

Bind or secure by a pledge;