What's the difference between fare and farewell?

Fare


Definition:

  • (n.) To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
  • (n.) To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
  • (n.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
  • (n.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
  • (n.) To behave; to conduct one's self.
  • (v.) A journey; a passage.
  • (v.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
  • (v.) Ado; bustle; business.
  • (v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
  • (v.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
  • (v.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
  • (v.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
  • (2) The female survival figures were better than the male, and older patients fared far worse then younger ones.
  • (3) One problem is that it seems fares are going up several times a year.
  • (4) Yet it appears that younger patients fared better than older ones.
  • (5) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
  • (6) We’re meant to get into a choreographed huff about train fares.
  • (7) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
  • (8) But many customers have been impressed by the speed of the technology and cheapness of the fares, and the company’s valuation continues to rise.
  • (9) Those patients who were treated seemed to fare better than those not treated.
  • (10) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
  • (11) Anthony Smith, Passenger Focus chief executive, said: "These fare increases were being sought by a company that was in a very different financial position.
  • (12) This week, East Midlands Trains more than doubled the cost of some peak-time trains to London, arguing those fares were too cheap.
  • (13) A survey of radiologic technologists in North Carolina shows that, in general, technologists fare better economically when working in hospitals than in radiologists' offices.
  • (14) The patients on active drug fared no better than those on placebo.
  • (15) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
  • (16) For those making an early getaway, air fares were up by 7% and boat journeys went up 5.2%.
  • (17) Val Shawcross, Labour's transport spokeswoman on the London assembly, said the anticipated loss of revenue almost matched the £60m the mayor, who chairs Transport for London, had raised by increasing bus fares in the capital.
  • (18) In Spain the government is taking the drastic step of cutting speed limits on motorways and cutting train fares , as the unrest in Libya threatens the country's oil supplies.
  • (19) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
  • (20) He says he missed the appointment because he did not have enough money for the bus fare.

Farewell


Definition:

  • (interj.) Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell.
  • (n.) A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.
  • (n.) Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something.
  • (a.) Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Monday's ruling didn't just undercut the mayor's farewell gesture, a capstone in his crusade against unhealthful or just distasteful public behavior, which he was planning to trumpet on Letterman that night.
  • (2) Rudd's spectacular fall is a fate that the now former PM, a proud man who some say is driven by a quiet rage, will find difficult to accept – he shed tears in his farewell address .
  • (3) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
  • (4) During a break between Detective Frost and Whitechapel, I decided to have a farewell glass of port in the honesty bar adjacent to the library.
  • (5) The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.
  • (6) But Moyes would not be drawn on the chances of this being their European farewell.
  • (7) More than half a century after the US military draft put Elvis Presley's career on hold, his modern-day South Korean counterpart bade farewell to tearful fans this week as he prepared for two years' national service.
  • (8) If this is verified, we may say farewell to routine smallpox vaccination.
  • (9) But this was a thoroughly joyous and well-crafted farewell.
  • (10) When France put an end to capital punishment in 1981, it also bid a not-so-fond farewell to the instrument of death that had taken the lives of thousands.
  • (11) This is a farewell message [from a doctor] whose fate along with that of his companions is death or arrest at any moment.” One resident said the airstrikes had subsided by Tuesday morning due to lower visibility and rain, offering a brief respite to civilians who were still on the move and seeking shelter in the rebel districts.
  • (12) Frank Lampard had moved to nip all talk of farewells in the bud.
  • (13) Thompson was also a generous host of farewell dinners for departing BBC staff.
  • (14) Gassman's swan song, or serata d'addio, the farewell performance which Italian actors of distinction were always expected to give, began in 1996.
  • (15) Leaving London this morning after a formal farewell from the Queen at Buckingham Palace, Mr Bush and his entourage made their way on Air Force One to the prime minister's County Durham constituency.
  • (16) One of only two artworks on display to feature any colour is Farewell, based on a picture she took of her father looking out from his study into his wild, overgrown back garden for the last time.
  • (17) The analysis demonstrates differences in the two therapists' practice from the very moment patient and therapist greet one another till they say farewell.
  • (18) Big international firms should shoulder (their) due responsibilities to bid farewell to malpractice, setting a good example and serving as a wake-up call for domestic pharmaceutical companies.
  • (19) I realized that win or lose, there are people out there that see what I’m doing and follow it as a role model.” Although he slogged vigorously across his home state in the pursuit of every last vote, the final 10 days of Rubio’s campaign more closely resembled a farewell tour.
  • (20) A great woman gone far too young.” Bellingham’s pre-recorded farewell appearance on Loose Women is due to be screened on Wednesday.