English Synonyms and Antonyms

attribute in art is some accessory used to characterize a figure or scene; the attribute is often an emblem or
symbol; thus the eagle is the attribute of St. John as an emblem of lofty spiritual vision. Compare SIGN.
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EMIGRATE.
Synonyms:
immigrate, migrate.
To migrate is to change one's dwelling-place, usually with the idea of repeated change, or of periodical return;
it applies to wandering tribes of men, and to many birds and animals. Emigrate and immigrate carry the idea
of a permanent change of residence to some other country or some distant region; the two words are used
distinctively of human beings, and apply to the same person and the same act, according to the side from
which the action is viewed.
Prepositions:
A person emigrates from the land he leaves, and immigrates to the land where he takes up his abode.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
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EMPLOY.
Synonyms:
call, engage, engross, hire, make use of, use, use up.
In general terms it may be said that to employ is to devote to one's purpose, to use is to render subservient to
one's purpose; what is used is viewed as more absolutely an instrument than what is employed; a merchant
employs a clerk; he uses pen and paper; as a rule, use is not said of persons, except in a degrading sense; as,
the conspirators used him as a go-between. Hence the expression common in some religious circles "that God
would use me" is not to be commended; it has also the fault of representing the human worker as absolutely a
passive and helpless instrument; the phrase is altogether unscriptural; the Scripture says, "We are laborers
together with (co-workers with) God." That which is used is often consumed in the using, or in familiar phrase
used up; as, we used twenty tons of coal last winter; in such cases we could not substitute employ. A person
may be employed in his own work or in that of another; in the latter case the service is always understood to
be for pay. In this connection employ is a word of more dignity than hire; a general is employed in his
country's service; a mercenary adventurer is hired to fight a tyrant's battles. It is unsuitable, according to
present usage, to speak of hiring a pastor; the Scripture, indeed, says of the preacher, "The laborer is worthy
of his hire;" but this sense is archaic, and hire now implies that the one hired works directly and primarily for
the pay, as expressed in the noun "hireling;" a Pastor is properly said to be called, or when the business side of
the transaction is referred to, engaged, or possibly employed, at a certain salary.
Prepositions:
Employ in, on, upon, or about a work, business, etc.; for a purpose; at a stipulated salary.
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END, v.
Synonyms:
break off, close, conclude, expire, quit, terminate, cease, complete, desist, finish, stop, wind up.
That ends, or is ended, of which there is no more, whether or not more was intended or needed; that is closed,
completed, concluded, or finished which has come to an expected or appropriate end. A speech may be ended
almost as soon as begun, because of the speaker's illness, or of tumult in the audience; in such a case, the
speech is neither closed, completed, nor finished, nor, in the strict sense, concluded. An argument may be
closed with nothing proved; when an argument is concluded all that is deemed necessary to prove the point
has been stated. To finish is to do the last thing there is to do; as, "I have finished my course," 2 Tim. iv, 7.