different between agreement vs verification

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 French vérification, from Medieval Latin verificatio

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

verification (countable and uncountable, plural verifications)

1. The act of verifying.
2. The state of being verified.
3. Confirmation; authentication.

   The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.

4. (law) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.
5. (mathematics) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.

Derived terms

• verification principle

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Formal verification on Wikipedia.Wikipedia