What's the difference between rely and trust?

Rely


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (2) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
  • (3) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
  • (4) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (5) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
  • (6) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (7) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
  • (8) The politician had to rely on a handful of independent members of parliament finally backing her before she could take up office at the head of a minority government.
  • (9) Highly educated women are less likely than those with little education to elect sterilizations and more likely to rely on barrier methods.
  • (10) The identification of oncogenes relies upon transfer into host normal cells of DNA isolated from cancer cells.
  • (11) Conventional procedures for the isolation of uncontaminated polysomal RNAs which rely on sucrose density centrifugations are laborious and unsuitable for large scale isolations.
  • (12) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
  • (13) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
  • (14) Screening for neuropathy in elderly patients should probably rely on clinical examination or electrophysiological tests.
  • (15) The other one is used by small precursor proteins and relies on the mature part within the precursor molecule and a cytosolic ATPase.
  • (16) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
  • (17) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.
  • (18) The development of assays using a panel of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) or lectins directed against the different carbohydrate epitopes expressed on this mucin may provide better diagnostic accuracy for pancreatic cancer than current marker assays which rely on detection of a single epitope.
  • (19) This case of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis emphasizes the rarity of the disease and its exceptional diagnosis in infants which relies on the pulmonary pathologic study.
  • (20) The method of plastic embedding of tissue and implant and subsequent separation of plastic and implant for preparing sections of tissue adjacent to solid metallic implants relies on a successful separation of the embedment and the implant.

Trust


Definition:

  • (n.) Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.
  • (n.) Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.
  • (n.) Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.
  • (n.) That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.
  • (n.) The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
  • (n.) That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
  • (n.) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.
  • (n.) An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust.
  • (a.) Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.
  • (n.) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.
  • (n.) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  • (n.) To hope confidently; to believe; -- usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
  • (n.) to show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
  • (n.) To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
  • (n.) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.
  • (n.) To risk; to venture confidently.
  • (v. i.) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
  • (v. i.) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
  • (v. i.) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A spokesman for the Greens said that the party was “disappointed” with the decision and would be making representations to both the BBC and BBC Trust .
  • (2) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
  • (3) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (4) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
  • (5) Dilemmas of trust, confidentiality, and professional competence highlight the limits of professional ethical codes.
  • (6) "The value the public place on the BBC is actually rising," said Lyons, citing research carried out by the BBC Trust earlier this year.
  • (7) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
  • (8) That's why the Trussell Trust has been calling for an in depth inquiry into the causes of food poverty.
  • (9) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
  • (10) That has driven whole river systems to a complete population crash,” said Darren Tansley, a wildlife officer with Essex Wildlife Trust.
  • (11) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.
  • (12) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
  • (13) In addition we also suggested that he was in charge of the company's privacy policy and that he now trusts open source software where he can examine the underlying code himself.
  • (14) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
  • (15) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (16) We trust that others will be stimulated to investigate further applications of this instrumental approach to problems in cell biology.
  • (17) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
  • (18) "I agree [with the policy] if you live in a climate of trust," said Mourinho.
  • (19) The party she led still touts itself as the bunch you can trust with the nation's money.
  • (20) Its findings will be presented to the BBC Trust as well as to both Houses of Parliament.