Merit vs. Advantage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Merit and Advantage
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Merit
Superior quality or worth; excellence
A proposal of some merit.
An ill-advised plan without merit.
Advantage
A beneficial factor or combination of factors
Being tall is usually an advantage in basketball.
Merit
A quality deserving praise or approval; virtue
A store having the merit of being open late.
Advantage
Benefit or profit; gain
It is to your advantage to invest wisely.
Merit
Demonstrated ability or achievement
Promotions based on merit alone.
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Advantage
A relatively favorable position; superiority of means
A better education gave us the advantage.
Merit
Often merits An aspect of character or behavior deserving approval or disapproval
Judging people according to their merits.
Advantage
The first point scored in tennis after deuce.
Merit
In various religions, spiritual credit granted for good works.
Advantage
The resulting score.
Merit
(Law) The factors to be considered in making a substantive decision in a case, independent of procedural or technical aspects
A trial on the merits.
Advantage
(Sports) A situation in soccer in which the referee has signaled that a foul has been committed but delays making the call because the fouled team has a more favorable position in play. If the fouled team loses this favorable position, the referee then makes the call.
Merit
The factual content of a matter, apart from emotional, contextual, or formal considerations.
Advantage
To afford profit or gain to; benefit.
Merit
To earn; deserve.
Advantage
(countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
The enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
Merit
To be worthy or deserving
Pupils are rewarded or corrected, as they merit.
Advantage
(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
Merit
(countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
Advantage
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
The advantage of a good constitution
Having the faster car is of little advantage.
Merit
(countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.
Advantage
(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
Merit
Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
Advantage
(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
Merit
The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
To acquire or make merit
Advantage
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
Merit
Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
Even though the plaintiff was ordered by the judge to pay some costs for not having followed the correct procedure, she won the case on the merits.
Advantage
(transitive) to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to
Merit
The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
Advantage
(reflexive) to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of
Merit
(transitive) To deserve, to earn.
Her performance merited wild applause.
Advantage
Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.
Give me advantage of some brief discourse.
The advantages of a close alliance.
Merit
(intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
They were punished as they merited.
Advantage
Superiority; mastery; - with of or over.
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us.
Merit
To reward.
Advantage
Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
Merit
The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Here may men see how sin hath his merit.
Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthoughtFor things that others do; and when we fall,We answer other's merits in our name.
Advantage
Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
And with advantage means to pay thy love.
Merit
The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
Reputation is . . . oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known,And every author's merit, but his own.
Advantage
The first point scored after deuce.
Merit
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
Those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth.
Advantage
To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.
The truth is, the archbishop's own stiffness and averseness to comply with the court designs, advantaged his adversaries against him.
What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Merit
To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.
Advantage
The quality of having a superior or more favorable position;
The experience gave him the advantage over me
Merit
To reward.
Advantage
First point scored after deuce
Merit
To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
Advantage
Benefit resulting from some event or action;
It turned out to my advantage
Reaping the rewards of generosity
Merit
Any admirable quality or attribute;
Work of great merit
Advantage
Give an advantage to;
This system advantages the rich
Merit
The quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance);
There were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded
Merit
Be worthy or deserving;
You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done
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