different between docket vs classification

English

Alternative forms

• docquet (archaic)

Etymology

Origin uncertain; perhaps a diminutive of dock.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?k?t/
• Rhymes: -?k?t

Noun

docket (plural dockets)

1. (obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
2. (law) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
3. (law) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
4. An agenda of things to be done.
5. A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
6. (Australia) A receipt.

Translations

See also

• receipt

Verb

docket (third-person singular simple present dockets, present participle docketing, simple past and past participle docketed)

1. (transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
2. (transitive) To label a parcel, etc.

   to docket goods

3. (transitive) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.

   to docket letters and papers

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4. (transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.

   judgments regularly docketed

Anagrams

• tocked

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French classification

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?klæs?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

classification (countable and uncountable, plural classifications)

1. The act of forming into a class or classes; a distribution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or attributes.
   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN

     I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
     And there is also taxinomia a principle of 'classification' and ordered tabulation.
     Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
     Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

Derived terms

• classification scheme
• classification yard

Related terms

• class
• classic
• classify
• category
• categorize
• segment

Translations

Further reading

• classification in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• classification in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• classification at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

classe +? -ification

Pronunciation

Noun

classification f (plural classifications)

1. classification

Further reading

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