different between docket vs earmark

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

ear +? mark

Pronunciation

Verb

earmark (third-person singular simple present earmarks, present participle earmarking, simple past and past participle earmarked)

1. (transitive) To mark (as of sheep) by slitting the ear.
2. (transitive, by extension) To specify or set aside for a particular purpose, to allocate.

Synonyms

• (set aside for a particular purpose): appropriate, sepose; see also Thesaurus:set apart

Translations

Noun

earmark (plural earmarks)

1. A mark or deformation of the ear of an animal, intended to indicate ownership.
2. (US, politics) The designation of specific projects in appropriations of funding for general programs.
3. A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark.
   • 1860, John Wharton, The Law Lexicon

     Money has no earmark.

   • 1959, Brunettie Burrow, Angels in White

     I saw in my patient one of the most forbidding men I have ever met. He had all the earmarks of a criminal.

Coordinate terms

• (US politics): phonemark

Translations

See also

• expenditure
• pork barrel

References

• http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?earmark