different between deputation vs attachment

English

Etymology

From Middle French députation, from Late Latin deputatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?pju??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

deputation (countable and uncountable, plural deputations)

1. The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.

   • The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God.

2. The person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; a delegation.
   • 1850, George Long, France and Its Revolutions: A Pictorial History, 1789-1848 (page 29)

     A deputation came to the Hotel de Ville from the district of the Mathurins, where the people had assembled, appointed a president and other officers, and begun to make a list of the citizens who were able to bear arms.

3. Among Christian missionaries, the process or period of time during which they raise support in preparation for going to their mission field.

Usage notes

The use of the word in the missionary sense has been common in churches and mission organizations for over a century, but has recently been giving way to the more "bureaucratic" term "home ministry assignment". As commonly used, a missionary does deputation or is on deputation. However, the missionary is not called a "deputy" nor is the person said to be a part of a "deputation". Deputation begins when the missionary is officially commissioned to be a missionary, and it ends when the person goes to the mission field.

Translations

Anagrams

• outpainted, painted out

Danish

Noun

deputation c (singular definite deputationen, plural indefinite deputationer)

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Declension

Further reading

• “deputation” in Den Danske Ordbog

English

Etymology

From French attachement, equivalent to attach +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tæt?m?nt/

Noun

attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)

1. The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
2. A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.

   I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!

3. A dependence, especially a strong one.
4. A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
5. The means by which something is physically attached.
6. (computing) A file sent along with an email.
7. (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.

   attachment of earnings

8. (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
   • 2009, Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics, published in the Journal of Lightning Research, volume 1

Derived terms

• attachment disorder

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English attachment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?t?m?nt/, /??t?t?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: at?tach?ment

Noun

attachment m or n (plural attachments)

1. attachment (to an email)

   Synonym: bijlage

2. (psychology) attachment, personal bonding