different between docket vs inscription

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

From Latin ?nscr?pti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?sk??p??n/
• Rhymes: -?p??n
• Hyphenation: in?scrip?tion

Noun

inscription (countable and uncountable, plural inscriptions)

1. The act of inscribing.
2. Text carved on a wall or plaque, such as a memorial or gravestone.
3. The text on a coin.

   Synonym: legend

4. Words written in the front of a book as a dedication.

Translations

See also

• epigraph

French

Etymology

From Latin inscr?pti?, inscr?pti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s.k?ip.sj??/

Noun

inscription f (plural inscriptions)

1. registration, enrolment
2. inscription

Related terms

• inscrire

Further reading

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