different between confirmation vs agreement

English

Etymology

From Old French confirmacion, from Latin c?nfirm?ti?, noun of process from c?nfirm?tus (“confirmed”), perfect passive participle of c?nfirm?re, from con- (“with”) + firm?re (“to firm or strengthen”)Morphologically confirm +? -ation

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?n.f???me?.??n/, [?k???.f??me?.?n?]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?n.f??me?.??n/, [?k???.f??me?.?n?]
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation US: con?fir?ma?tion, UK: con?firm?a?tion

Noun

confirmation (countable and uncountable, plural confirmations)

1. An official indicator that things will happen as planned.

   We will send you a written confirmation of your hotel booking.

2. A verification that something is true or has happened.

   The announcement in the newspaper was a confirmation of my suspicions.

3. A ceremony of sealing and conscious acknowledgement of the faith in many Christian churches, typically around the ages of 14 to 18; considered a sacrament in some churches, including Catholicism, but not in most Protestant churches.

Related terms

• confirm
• confirmational
• confirmation bias

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French confirmacion, from Latin c?nfirm?ti?

Pronunciation

Noun

confirmation f (plural confirmations)

1. confirmation (all senses)

Interlingua

Noun

confirmation (plural confirmationes)

1. confirmation, 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