CREDIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does credit mean? 

• CREDIT (noun)
  The noun CREDIT has 9 senses:

1. approval

2. money available for a client to borrow

3. an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items

4. used in the phrase 'to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise

5. arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services

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

7. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

8. an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work

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

  Familiarity information: CREDIT used as a noun is familiar.

• CREDIT (verb)
  The verb CREDIT has 4 senses:

1. give someone credit for something

2. ascribe an achievement to

3. accounting: enter as credit

4. have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of

  Familiarity information: CREDIT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREDIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Approval

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

credit; recognition

Context example:

give her credit for trying

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 2

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 3

Meaning:

An accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

credit; credit entry

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)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

she already had several performances to her credit

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

accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

credit; deferred payment

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 6

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

course credit; credit

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 7

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

the article includes mention of similar clinical cases

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 8

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the credits were given at the end of the film

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 9

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

credit; credit rating

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

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

• CREDIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they credit    ... he / she / it credits   
Past simple: credited   
Past participle: credited   
-ing form: crediting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give someone credit for something

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

We credited her for saving our jobs

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 2

Meaning:

Ascribe an achievement to

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

accredit; credit

Context example:

She was not properly credited in the program

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 3

Meaning:

Accounting: enter as credit

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

We credit your account with $100

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)

Sense 4

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

 Context examples 

In love, be sure you know the person well before you get deeply involved, and know the person’s financial status and credit rating.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Well, continued Mrs Smith, triumphantly, grant my friend the credit due to the establishment of the first point asserted.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"How much will pay them off and restore your credit?" asked Meg, taking out her purse.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One and all, from time to time, they felt his teeth; and to his credit, he gave more than he received.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Sir Thomas gave her more credit for discretion on the occasion than she deserved; and Fanny could have blessed her for allowing her only to see her displeasure, and not to hear it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

You feel, as you always do, what is most to the credit of human nature.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It also credited Leonov with making the spacewalk possible, noting on Twitter "his venture into the vacuum of space began the history of extravehicular activity".

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

His hair and whiskers were blacker and thicker, looked at so near, than even I had given them credit for being.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Perhaps I shall get the credit also at some distant day, when I permit my zealous historian to lay out his foolscap once more—eh, Watson?

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