different between donation vs award
donation
- For making donations to Wikimedia, see Wikimedia:fundraising.
English
Etymology
From Middle French donation, from Latin d?n?ti? (“a present”), from d?n? (“to give”), from d?num (“a gift”). Recorded in English since the 15th century.
Pronunciation
- (UK), IPA(key): /d???ne???n/
- (US) enPR: d?n?'sh?n, IPA(key): /do??ne???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
donation (plural donations)
- A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.
- The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
- After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.
Related terms
- donate
Translations
See also
- fundraising
Anagrams
- D'Antonio, Dantonio, nodation
Danish
Noun
donation c (singular definite donationen, plural indefinite donationer)
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Declension
Further reading
- “donation” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Middle French donation, from Latin d?n?ti?nem, accusative singular of d?n?ti?.
Pronunciation
Noun
donation f (plural donations)
- donation
Related terms
- don
- donner
Further reading
- “donation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Latin d?n?ti?nem, accusative singular of d?n?ti?.
Noun
donation f (plural donations)
- donation
Descendants
- ? English: donation
- French: donation
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin d?n?ti?, attested from 1620.
Noun
donation c
- donation
Declension
Related terms
- donera
References
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award
English
Etymology
From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??w??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??w??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Noun
award (plural awards)
- (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
- (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
- A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
- (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated minimum wage that is set for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
Derived terms
- Academy Award
- award ceremony
- book award
- Darwin Award
Translations
Verb
award (third-person singular simple present awards, present participle awarding, simple past and past participle awarded)
- (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge
- the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant
- To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new.
- (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
- (transitive) To give (an award).
- Synonym: bestow
- Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.
- (transitive) To give (a person) an award.
- He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Synonyms
- (make or grant an award): crown
Derived terms
- awardable
- awardee
- awarder
- awarding
- awardment
- reaward
Translations
Further reading
- award in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- award in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Warda, adraw
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