What's the difference between debit and doubt?

Debit


Definition:

  • (n.) A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.
  • (v. t.) To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.
  • (v. t.) To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The debit card doubles as a Clubcard, and customers will be able to earn points wherever they use it.
  • (2) Target’s data breach in 2013 exposed details of as many as 40m credit and debit card accounts and hurt its holiday sales that year.
  • (3) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
  • (4) It comes with a full banking service including a cash card but no debit card, chequebook or overdraft.
  • (5) CPAs are similar to direct debits in that they enable a company to control the size and frequency of payments from the customer's account.
  • (6) The Tesco Bank current account offers 3% interest on credit balances, Clubcard points on all debit card spending, and a "simple and transparent" fees and charges structure.
  • (7) JD, Oxford More than three months to get a replacement debit card is ridiculous, and we agree that you have been more than patient.
  • (8) Hours after Greece’s bailout programme with its creditors expired and the country became the first in the developed world to miss an IMF loan repayment, Greek pensioners without debit cards were at last able to withdraw some cash.
  • (9) The second debit sent him overdrawn leaving him unable to access any funds.
  • (10) In 2014, hackers stole information on an estimated 56 million debit and credit card customers from Home Depot .
  • (11) Pay by direct debit This can save consumers up to 10% or about £100 a year, according to Citizens Advice .
  • (12) As part of an ongoing investigation into credit brokers, the company was found to have used high-pressure sales tactics to persuade consumers to provide their debit or credit card details on the false premise that they were needed for an identity or security check.
  • (13) The £5 a month is to ensure that customers do not face further banking charges when payments are returned unpaid for direct debits and standing orders.
  • (14) The average debit card was used to make 94 purchases in 2013, with the total amount spent per card typically coming in at just over £4,000.
  • (15) However, hyperimmunoglobulinemia tends to show elevated hydrochloric acid debit.
  • (16) As students across Britain began closing accounts at the bank, HSBC reacted by freezing interest on overdrafts Letter chain Millions of template letters downloaded from internet sites - including theguardian.com - forced the banks into this week's court case to clarify the legal basis of charges such as those for bounced cheques and direct debits.
  • (17) He said he was considering requiring energy companies to put some direct debit customers on low tariffs with a customer's right to opt out.
  • (18) Allowing tenants to set the date the direct debit leaves their account also boosts take-up.
  • (19) The results point out that the phase of cell-specific function is distinctly lengthened to the debit of a reduced rate of mitosis.
  • (20) Choose an online tariff Scottish Power, British Gas and npower are among the providers which offer their best deals to customers willing to pay by direct debit and manage their account online.

Doubt


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To waver in opinion or judgment; to be in uncertainty as to belief respecting anything; to hesitate in belief; to be undecided as to the truth of the negative or the affirmative proposition; to b e undetermined.
  • (v. i.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive.
  • (v. t.) To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to; to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe; to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
  • (v. t.) To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of.
  • (v. t.) To fill with fear; to affright.
  • (v. i.) A fluctuation of mind arising from defect of knowledge or evidence; uncertainty of judgment or mind; unsettled state of opinion concerning the reality of an event, or the truth of an assertion, etc.; hesitation.
  • (v. i.) Uncertainty of condition.
  • (v. i.) Suspicion; fear; apprehension; dread.
  • (v. i.) Difficulty expressed or urged for solution; point unsettled; objection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a further study 1082 patients with a negative or doubtful result of the physical examination were investigated using ultrasound.
  • (2) p-Chlorophenylalanine (PCPA) also reduced the response to levodopa but the usefulness of PCPA as an inhibitor of 5HT synthesis in these experiments in doubtful since it also inhibited the hypoglycaemic effects of 5HTP and i.c.v.
  • (3) There is no doubt that new techniques in molecular biology will continue to evolve so that the goal of gene therapy for many disorders may be possible in the future.
  • (4) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
  • (5) There is no doubt that psychological, reactive and environmental factors do play a certain role too.
  • (6) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (7) Without that, and without undertaking big changes, the service's future may fall into doubt, he says.
  • (8) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
  • (9) Doubts about Hinkley Point have deepened after a detailed report by HSBC’s energy analysts described eight key challenges to the project, which will be built by the state-backed French firm EDF and be part-financed by investment from China .
  • (10) The mean age of gravidae with doubtful smears is about 6 years beyond the mean age of gravidae with positive smears.
  • (11) I have no doubt that both the Conservative and Labour parties will maintain throughout the course of the election campaign their determination to build four submarines and 160 warheads,” he says.
  • (12) There is little doubt that when it opens next Thursday, One New Change will be jam-packed with City workers and tourists.
  • (13) We feel that they, as presented, leave serious doubt as to the validity of their conclusions.
  • (14) Contact guidance has been suggested to direct NC cells ventrally in the trunk, but this has been subject to doubt (see Newgreen and Erickson, 1986, Int.
  • (15) Although “there are serious questions and doubts in our minds over the government’s seven-day working agenda … it isn’t clear what this strike action is for and what the position of the BMA is now,” he told the Guardian.
  • (16) There is no doubt that people were killed quite deliberately by police officers.
  • (17) Other critics, even if they were unsure of the lasting relevance, were willing to give Tillmans the benefit of the doubt.
  • (18) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
  • (19) Another forward, Manchester United's Danny Welbeck, is a major doubt for the game with a knee complaint.
  • (20) Coghlin said: “There is no doubt that, as a consequence of the personalities involved, these proceedings attracted a very considerable degree of media publicity both before and, to a certain degree, subsequent to the trial.