different between candidate vs volunteer

English

Etymology

From Latin candid?tus (“a person who is standing for public office”), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -?tus (an adjectival suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæn.d?d?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæn.d?.de?t/, /?kæn.d?.d?t/
• (US, colloquially) IPA^(key): /?kæn.?.d?t/, /?kæn.?.de?t/

Noun

candidate (plural candidates)

1. A person who is running in an election.

2. A person who is applying for a job.

3. A participant in an examination.

4. Something or somebody that may be suitable.
5. (genetics) A gene which may play a role in a given disease.

Derived terms

• candidacy
• Manchurian candidate
• release candidate

Related terms

Translations

Verb

candidate (third-person singular simple present candidates, present participle candidating, simple past and past participle candidated)

1. (uncommon) To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
   • 1906, Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, page 196:

     The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.

   • 2014, Susan H. Jones, Listening for God's Call, SCM Press (?ISBN), page 74:

     The report Shaping the Future also gives a set of learning outcomes for those people candidating for ordained ministry. These were also agreed by the Methodist Conference.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:candidated.
2. (nonstandard, chiefly in jargon and non-native speakers' English) To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
   • 1982, Brian O'Leary, Space industrialization, CRC:

     Performance comparison of solar energy conversion candidated for SPS. (From NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston 1977.)

   • 1989, Institution of Electrical Engineers. Electronics Division, European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design, 5-8 September 1989, Peter Peregrinus Limited (?ISBN):

     In this program if a processor becomes idle, then all feasible activities requiring that kind of processor will be candidated for scheduling. If the number of candidates is more than the number of available processors, activities with higher priority ...

   • 2005, Khaled M. Khan, Yan Zhang, Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance, IGI Global (?ISBN), page 308:

     Evaluate the maintenance costs of the software system in order to candidate it for evolution AA14. Evaluate the hardware platform used and the possibility of migrating the software system toward more economical platforms ...

References

French

Noun

candidate f (plural candidates)

1. female equivalent of candidat

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

candidate f

1. plural of candidata

Verb

candidate

1. second-person plural present indicative of candidare
2. second-person plural imperative of candidare
3. feminine plural of candidato

Latin

Noun

candid?te

1. vocative singular of candid?tus

Norman

Noun

candidate f (plural candidates)

1. female equivalent of candidat

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kandi?date/, [kãn?.d?i?ð?a.t?e]

Verb

candidate

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of candidatar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of candidatar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French voluntaire, from Latin volunt?rius (“willing, voluntary”); or from voluntary +? -eer.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /v?l.?n?t??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v?l.?n?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: vol?un?teer

Noun

volunteer (plural volunteers)

1. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
2. (military) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
3. (law) A person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
4. (botany, agriculture) A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
5. A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.

Related terms

• voluntarism
• voluntarist
• volunteership

Translations

Verb

volunteer (third-person singular simple present volunteers, present participle volunteering, simple past and past participle volunteered)

1. (intransitive) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.

   to volunteer for doing the dishes

3. (transitive) To offer, usually unprompted.

   to volunteer an explanation

4. (intransitive, botany) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
5. (transitive, informal) To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.

   My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.

Translations

References

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