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Hi Lora,
Believe means trust and accept as the truth. Discover someone means find.
Look at these:
She accepted every single thing he said without any doubt and believed him when he said he was telling the truth,
She changed her mind however when she discovered a letter he'd written that said the exact opposite.
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| Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:35 am Credit & believe |
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| What's the difference between 'credit' and 'believe', please? |
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| Sun Nov 26, 2006 15:25 pm Credit & believe |
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Hi Moni
To give someone credit for something means to acknowledge his or her accomplishments/contributions to a certain task or work. Like the credits rolling over the screen at the end of a movie, naming everyone who contributed to its making.
Related with the concept of belief is the word "credible", which means that if you consider someone to be very credible -or put differently, to have a high level of credibility- you are willing to believe him.
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| Sun Nov 26, 2006 16:47 pm Credit vs. believe |
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Adding to what our new friend has said (by the way, welcome Ralf!), 'credit' and 'believe' can also be synonymous:
I don't credit his story. |
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| Sun Nov 26, 2006 19:58 pm Credit vs. believe |
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Hi Conchita and thanks for welcoming me.
Credit has really a lot of meanings depending on context. I found this list quite comprehensive:
http://www.bartleby.com/61/56/C0735600.html
Cheers
L.L.
| Conchita wrote: | Adding to what our new friend has said (by the way, welcome Ralf!), 'credit' and 'believe' can also be synonymous:
I don't credit his story. |
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| Sun Nov 26, 2006 21:42 pm Difference between believe and discover |
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Hi,
The ideas behind 'credit and 'believe' vary slightly in their implication. We can say: I wouldn't credit it or I wouldn't believe it.They both suggest that you find 'it' difficult to accept. 'Not believe it' suggests you think 'it' false or incorrect , 'not credit it' not only do you not accept ' it' but also you don't think it is possible.
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