Interest
To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work.
To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; -- often used impersonally.
To cause or permit to share.
Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern.
Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.
Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.
Premium paid for the use of money, -- usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.
Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.
The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest.
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Interest Quotations
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith
I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
Steve Jobs
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George Washington
Interest Translations
interest in Afrikaans is belangstelling
interest in Danish is interesse
interest in Dutch is interesseren, belang inboezemen
interest in Finnish is kiinnostaa
interest in German is Zins {m}, Anteil {m}, Interesse
interest in Italian is interessare, interesse
interest in Norwegian is interessere, interesse, rente
interest in Portuguese is interesse
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