Promise vs. Spell

Promisenoun

(countable) an oath or affirmation; a vow

Promisenoun

(countable) a transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use

Promisenoun

(uncountable) reason to expect improvement or success; potential

Promisenoun

a placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation

Promisenoun

bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised

Promiseverb

(transitive) to commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow

Promiseverb

(intransitive) to give grounds for expectation, especially of something good

Promiseadjective

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act.

Promiseadjective

An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made.

Promiseadjective

That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise.

Promiseadjective

Bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised.

Promiseverb

To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money.

Promiseverb

To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain.

Promiseverb

To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.

Promiseverb

To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration.

Promiseverb

To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil.

Promisenoun

a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future

Promisenoun

grounds for feeling hopeful about the future;

Promiseverb

make a promise or commitment

Promiseverb

promise to undertake or give;

Promiseverb

make a prediction about; tell in advance;

Promiseverb

give grounds for expectations;

Promisenoun

a declaration or assurance that one will do something or that a particular thing will happen

Promisenoun

an indication that something is likely to occur

Promisenoun

the quality of potential excellence

Promiseverb

assure someone that one will definitely do something or that something will happen

Promiseverb

pledge (someone, especially a woman) to marry someone else; betroth

Promiseverb

give good grounds for expecting (a particular occurrence)

Promiseverb

announce (something) as being expected to happen

Promiseverb

contemplate the pleasant expectation of

Promise

A promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something. As a noun promise means a declaration assuring that one will or will not do something.

Spellnoun

Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.

Spellnoun

A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.

Spellnoun

(obsolete) Speech, discourse.

Spellnoun

A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.

Spellnoun

(informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).

Spellnoun

(colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.

Spellnoun

A period of rest; time off.

Spellnoun

A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.

Spellnoun

(cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.

Spellnoun

(dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.

Spellnoun

The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

Spellverb

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

Spellverb

(obsolete) To speak, to declaim.

Spellverb

(obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.

Spellverb

To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.

Spellverb

To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.

Spellverb

(intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.

Spellverb

(transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).

Spellverb

To indicate that (some event) will occur.

Spellverb

To clarify; to explain in detail.

Spellverb

To constitute; to measure.

Spellverb

(transitive) To work in place of (someone).

Spellverb

(transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.

Spellverb

To rest from work for a time.

Spellnoun

A spelk, or splinter.

Spellnoun

The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.

Spellnoun

The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.

Spellnoun

One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.

Spellnoun

A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.

Spellnoun

A story; a tale.

Spellnoun

A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.

Spellverb

To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.

Spellverb

To tell; to relate; to teach.

Spellverb

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

Spellverb

To constitute; to measure.

Spellverb

To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.

Spellverb

To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; - usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.

Spellverb

To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.

Spellverb

To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.

Spellnoun

a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

Spellnoun

a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else);

Spellnoun

a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition;

Spellnoun

a verbal formula believed to have magical force;

Spellverb

recite the letters of or give the spelling of;

Spellverb

indicate or signify;

Spellverb

write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word);

Spellverb

place under a spell