Sell
[sel] or [sɛl]
Definition
(noun.) the activity of persuading someone to buy; 'it was a hard sell'.
(verb.) persuade somebody to accept something; 'The French try to sell us their image as great lovers'.
(verb.) give up for a price or reward; 'She sold her principles for a successful career'.
(verb.) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; 'He sold his house in January'; 'She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit'.
(verb.) be sold at a certain price or in a certain way; 'These books sell like hot cakes'.
(verb.) be responsible for the sale of; 'All her publicity sold the products'.
(verb.) be approved of or gain acceptance; 'The new idea sold well in certain circles'.
Checked by Hugo--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Self.
(n.) A sill.
(n.) A cell; a house.
(n.) A saddle for a horse.
(n.) A throne or lofty seat.
(v. t.) To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money.
(v. t.) To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
(v. t.) To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat.
(v. i.) To practice selling commodities.
(v. i.) To be sold; as, corn sells at a good price.
(n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Checked by Ives
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Vend, dispose of, put up to sale, bring to the hammer.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vend, retail, hawk, dispose_of
ANT:Give, bestow, present
Editor: Luke
Definition
n. a seat a throne: (Spens.) a saddle: a saddler.—adj. Sell′iform saddle-shaped.
v.t. to deliver in exchange for something paid as equivalent: to betray for money: to impose upon cheat.—v.i. to have commerce: to be sold to be in demand for sale:—pa.t. and pa.p. sōld.—n. a deception.—adj. Sell′able that can be sold.—n. Sell′er a furnisher: a vender: a small vessel for holding salt.—Sell one's life dearly to do great injury to the enemy before one is killed; Sell one up to sell a debtor's goods; Sell out to dispose entirely of: to sell one's commission.
Typist: Molly
Examples
- I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Sell her her waste, please, and give her good measure if you can make up your mind to do the liberal thing for once. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Have we nothing to sell? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If we didn't want to sell it for the most we can get for it, we shouldn't do it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The Mexicans used to capture these in large numbers and bring them into the American settlements and sell them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is a mere toss up whether I shall ever do more than keep myself decently, unless I choose to sell myself as a mere pen and a mouthpiece. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Most cutters remove as little of the rough stone as possible in cutting so as to retain weight (they sell by weight). Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I am satisfied that Mr. and Mrs. Micawber could not have enjoyed the feast more, if they had sold a bed to provide it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She had sold it to become Sir Pitt Crawley's wife. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Why the bookseller that sold me the Wonderful Museum--where's the Wonderful Museum? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If I could have hoped it would have brought in nearly the sum wanted, I'd have sold all long ago. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Bring out some of the gold you sold yourself to the devil for. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Buying and selling was transacted by means of money in England then as well as now. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The dogfish are selling it somewhere else. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The stock was then selling at about 25, and in the later consolidation with the Western Union went in at about 60; so that the real purchase price was not less than $1,000,000 in cash. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Those firms which had not previously used direct-by-mail advertising were now coming to realize the many advantages of that modern selling short-cut and were compiling large lists of names. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A part of their wool and raw hides, they had generally an opportunity of selling for money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A sight of times better to be selling diments than nobbling about here. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The seller is almost always under the necessity of selling, and must, therefore, take such a price as he can get. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Whether his whole soul is devoted to the great or whether he yields them nothing beyond the services he sells is his personal secret. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the hand addressograph, which sells for as low as $27, he has worked out three practical models having an average speed of from 750 to 1,500 names and addresses an hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He sells, therefore, his rude produce for money, with which he can purchase, wherever it is to be had, the manufactured produce he has occasion for. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The man who buys, does not always mean to sell again, but frequently to use or to consume; whereas he who sells always means to buy again. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The more he sells the more he has for sale, said one priest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Thirdly, that little man in St. James' Street, who sells box-combs, I forget his name, cut her hair at least an inch too short on the forehead. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Them as sells heart's love and heart's blood, to get out thar scrapes, de Lord'll be up to 'em! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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