different between admission vs ventail

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admissio, admissionis; compare French admission. See admit.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /æd?m??.?n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

admission (countable and uncountable, plural admissions)

1. The act or practice of admitting.
2. Permission to enter, or the entrance itself; admittance; entrance; access

3. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgement; concession.
4. (law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
5. A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
6. (Britain, ecclesiastical law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
7. The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.

Synonyms

• admittance, concession, acknowledgment, concurrence, allowance

Derived terms

• legacy admission
• nonadmission
• open admission
• readmission
• request for admission

Translations

See also

• admission on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• admission in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• admission in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin admissio, admissionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.sj??/
• Homophone: admissions

Noun

admission f (plural admissions)

1. admission (act of admitting; state of being admitted)

Derived terms

• examen d'admission

Related terms

• admettre
• admissible

Further reading

• “admission” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• ventaille (obsolete)
• ventayle (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French ventaille.

Noun

ventail (plural ventails)

1. (obsolete) A piece of armor used to protect the neck.
2. (historical) The movable front part of a helmet, originally including the visor but later specifically the separate lower section.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:

     A comely knight, all arm'd in complete wize, / Through whose bright ventayle lifted vp on hye / His manly face [...] Lookt foorth [...].

   • 1937, David Jones, In Parenthesis, Part 7:

     nor no ventaille to this darkening / and masked face lifts to grope the air […].

3. (obsolete, rare) That part of a medieval helmet which is intended for the admission of air.

References

• ventail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Levitan, Valenti

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.taj/

Noun

ventail m (plural ventaux)

1. Post-1990 spelling of vantail.

Further reading

• “ventail” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).