different between agreement vs oath

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

From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English ?þ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?óytos (“oath”). Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ?tor (“use, employ, avail”), Old Irish óeth (“oath”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

oath (plural oaths)

1. A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
   • 2007, George Simmons Roth, Battle in Outer Space (?ISBN):

     But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word. But you took no oath, and have no obligation.

   • 2011, Mark Leyne, "The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel

     There are […] brought all the way from Bougainville to present their birth certificates and testify in this courtroom, under oath, as to their given names.

2. A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.

3. A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
4. A curse, a curse word.
   • 1981, Bernard Asbell, The Senate Nobody Knows:

     The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section […]

Synonyms

• pledge, vow, avowal

Derived terms

Related terms

• bloody oath (Australian slang)
• fucking oath (Australian slang)

Translations

Verb

oath (third-person singular simple present oaths, present participle oathing, simple past and past participle oathed)

1. (archaic) To pledge.

Translations

Further reading

• oath on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• HATO, Thao, taho