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CREDIT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used in the phrase 'to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise

Example:

she already had several performances to her credit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("credit" is a kind of...):

accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours

Synonyms:

course credit; credit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("credit" is a kind of...):

attainment (the act of achieving an aim)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "credit"):

credit hour; semester hour (a unit of academic credit; one hour a week for an academic semester)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments

Synonyms:

credit; credit rating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("credit" is a kind of...):

approximation; estimate; estimation; idea (an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work

Example:

the credits were given at the end of the film

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("credit" is a kind of...):

title (a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work)

Holonyms ("credit" is a part of...):

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)

Derivation:

credit (ascribe an achievement to)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Approval

Example:

give her credit for trying

Synonyms:

credit; recognition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("credit" is a kind of...):

approval; commendation (a message expressing a favorable opinion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "credit"):

commemoration; memorial; remembrance (a recognition of meritorious service)

ovation; standing ovation (enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause))

salutation; salute (an act of honor or courteous recognition)

Derivation:

credit (give someone credit for something)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

Example:

the article includes mention of similar clinical cases

Synonyms:

acknowledgment; citation; cite; credit; mention; quotation; reference

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("credit" is a kind of...):

annotation; notation; note (a comment or instruction (usually added))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "credit"):

photo credit (a note acknowledging the source of a published photograph)

cross-index; cross-reference (a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work)

Derivation:

credit (ascribe an achievement to)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services

Synonyms:

credit; deferred payment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("credit" is a kind of...):

payment (a sum of money paid or a claim discharged)

Antonym:

cash (prompt payment for goods or services in currency or by check)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Money available for a client to borrow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("credit" is a kind of...):

assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "credit"):

cheap money (credit available at low rates of interest)

export credit (a credit opened by an importer with a bank in an exporter's country to finance an export operation)

import credit (credit opened by an importer at a bank in his own country upon which an exporter may draw)

bank line; credit line; line; line of credit; personal credit line; personal line of credit (the maximum credit that a customer is allowed)

commercial credit (credit granted by a bank to a business concern for commercial purposes)

letter of credit (a document issued by a bank that guarantees the payment of a customer's draft; substitutes the bank's credit for the customer's credit)

Sense 9

Meaning:

An accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items

Synonyms:

credit; credit entry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("credit" is a kind of...):

accounting entry; entry; ledger entry (a written record of a commercial transaction)

Antonym:

debit (an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing)

Derivation:

credit (accounting: enter as credit)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "credit" is one way to...):

trust (have confidence or faith in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "credit"):

believe (credit with veracity)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give someone credit for something

Example:

We credited her for saving our jobs

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "credit" is one way to...):

ascribe; assign; attribute; impute (attribute or credit to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Derivation:

credit (approval)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Ascribe an achievement to

Example:

She was not properly credited in the program

Synonyms:

accredit; credit

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "credit" is one way to...):

ascribe; assign; attribute; impute (attribute or credit to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

credit (an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work)

credit (a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Accounting: enter as credit

Example:

We credit your account with $100

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "credit" is one way to...):

account; calculate (keep an account of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "credit"):

finance (sell or provide on credit)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Antonym:

debit (enter as debit)

Derivation:

credit (an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items)

creditor (a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As a result, having exhausted his credit with the tradesmen (though he had increased his credit with the grocer to five dollars), his wheel and suit of clothes went back to the pawnbroker.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“He doesn’t look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He quite ignored my presence, though I credited him with being simply unable to see me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To be sure, it was an unwonted performance: but he had learned to trust in men he knew, and to give them credit for a wisdom that outreached his own.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Come,” said he, “you are anxious for a compliment, so I will tell you that you have improved her. You have cured her of her school-girl's giggle; she really does you credit.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There is neither money nor credit in it, and yet one would wish to tidy it up.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

See how les petites cheries step out for the credit of their master.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)