different between agreement vs admission

English

Etymology

From Middle English agrement, agreement, from Old French agrement, agreement.

Morphologically agree +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????i?m?nt/

Noun

agreement (countable and uncountable, plural agreements)

1. (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.

2. (uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.

3. (uncountable, law) A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
4. (uncountable, linguistics, grammar) Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.

   • Having clarified what we mean by ‘Person? and ‘Number?, we can now return to our earlier observation that a finite I is inflected not only for Tense, but also for Agreement. More particularly, I inflects for Person and Number, and must ‘agree? with its Subject, in the sense that the Person/Number features of I must match those of the Subject.

5. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) An agreeable quality.
   • 1650, John Donne, "Elegie XVII":

     Her nymph-like features such agreements have / That I could venture with her to the grave [...].

Synonyms

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): concord, convention, covenant, meeting of the minds, pact, treaty; See also Thesaurus:pact
• (A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion): congeniality, concurrence, harmony, accord; See also Thesaurus:agreement
• (A legally binding contract): settlement
• (linguistics, grammar): concord, concordance
• (An agreeable quality): amenity, pleasantness, niceness

Coordinate terms

• (linguistics, grammar): rection

Hyponyms

• (An understanding to follow a course of conduct): conspiracy

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• consent, approval

See also

• consensus
• agreement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English agreement.

Noun

agreement m (invariable)

1. agreement (pact, accord)

Anagrams

• magnerete
• mangerete

Middle English

Noun

agreement

1. Alternative form of agrement

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).