What's the difference between credit and uncreditable?

Credit


Definition:

  • (n.) Reliance on the truth of something said or done; belief; faith; trust; confidence.
  • (n.) Reputation derived from the confidence of others; esteem; honor; good name; estimation.
  • (n.) A ground of, or title to, belief or confidence; authority derived from character or reputation.
  • (n.) That which tends to procure, or add to, reputation or esteem; an honor.
  • (n.) Influence derived from the good opinion, confidence, or favor of others; interest.
  • (n.) Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit.
  • (n.) The time given for payment for lands or goods sold on trust; as, a long credit or a short credit.
  • (n.) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B.
  • (v. t.) To confide in the truth of; to give credence to; to put trust in; to believe.
  • (v. t.) To bring honor or repute upon; to do credit to; to raise the estimation of.
  • (v. t.) To enter upon the credit side of an account; to give credit for; as, to credit the amount paid; to set to the credit of; as, to credit a man with the interest paid on a bond.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
  • (2) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
  • (3) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (4) It could provoke the gravest risk, that all three rating agencies declare a credit event and then there are big contagion risks for other countries," he said.
  • (5) After all, he reminds us, the Smiths can take no credit for the place, having only been born and brought up there, not responsible for its size and stature.
  • (6) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
  • (7) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
  • (8) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
  • (9) Markets reacted calmly on Friday to the downgrade by Moody's of 16 European and US banks, with share prices steady after the reduction in credit ratings, which can push up the cost of borrowing for banks which they could pass on to customers.
  • (10) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
  • (11) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
  • (12) Also remember that each time you apply for a loan your credit record is checked, which will leave a footprint of the search.
  • (13) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (14) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (15) In 1987 the WI's main concern, writes Robinson, was the "aggressive and indiscriminate sale of credit".
  • (16) The details also suggest ministers have still to resolve some key issues including how credit is to be paid and whether to include child tax credit and council tax benefit.
  • (17) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
  • (18) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
  • (19) Since they were established they have been credited with changing the face of children and family services, identifying disadvantaged children and families and providing targeted support.
  • (20) The market is lightly regulated and any problems could ripple out into a wider credit crunch.

Uncreditable


Definition:

  • (a.) Discreditable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Statham's biggest recent openings have been in ensemble casts in The Expendables and Fast & Furious 6 , where he played an uncredited cameo role.
  • (2) It demonstrated just how much of society ran on women’s uncredited free work.
  • (3) He was one of the many uncredited writers who worked at one time or another on the script for the Marlon Brando Mutiny on the Bounty (right).
  • (4) While Indian cinema has occasionally paid lip service to the west, most often it has cheerfully gone its own way: ransacking Shakespearean plot and characters, but remaking them for audiences who see no reason to care whether William Shakespeare was the world's greatest poet or an uncredited hack scriptwriter.
  • (5) Then the comedian would be run out of town by an angry mob who had realised that this charlatan’s stories were not necessarily true, his jokes were just meaningless wordplay, he did the same fake improvisations every night, and his personal anecdotes had been bought in wholesale from an uncredited writer on a £60 day rate.
  • (6) Set in suburban Texas in the summer of 1976, on the last day of school, Richard Linklater’s 1993 movie had the tagline: “A time they’d never forget (if only they could remember).” It had a ridiculous ensemble cast (Ben Affleck, Parker Posey, an uncredited Renée Zellweger, all unknowns) but the standout performance is from a young Matthew McConaughey as Wooderson, a twentysomething guru still hanging with high-school kids.
  • (7) Remarkably, it's her first film – though the situation is muddied by whether you count her uncredited role rewriting the 2008 prison biopic Bronson.
  • (8) Usefully, he had become a script doctor – a kind of uncredited Hollywood paramedic called in to do emergency rewrites when multimillion-dollar films (Mr and Mrs Smith, for instance, a couple of Ridley Scotts) were going down in flames.
  • (9) Six years later, in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Walter won an Oscar as best supporting actor, a film in which John is uncredited as a tourist whom Bogart panhandles in Mexico.
  • (10) Empire online says he has done uncredited rewrite work on several big budget films , including Kung Fu Panda 2 .
  • (11) She also became an uncredited “script doctor”, polishing and rewriting screenplays (among them The River Wild, The Wedding Singer and Sister Act) for small fortunes, though she insisted jokingly on being referred to as “a script nurse.
  • (12) The nomination and selection process is secretive and obscure, and worthy winners go uncredited because of the arbitrary maximum three-person limit on winners.
  • (13) Cartier-Bresson would later destroy a large proportion of his colour negatives and transparencies – despite providing Life magazine with a famous, if uncredited, colour cover shot in 1959 for an in-depth report on China.

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