different between evidence vs dossier

English

Etymology

From Middle English evidence, from Old French [Term?], from Latin evidentia (“clearness, in Late Latin a proof”), from evidens (“clear, evident”); see evident.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?d?ns/, /??v?d?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): [??v???ns]
• Hyphenation: ev?i?dence

Noun

evidence (usually uncountable, plural evidences)

1. Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
   • 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

     In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

2. (law) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
3. One who bears witness.
   • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 53:

     He recapitulated the Sybil’s story word by word, with the air of a man who is cross-examining an evidence, and trying to make him contradict himself.

4. A body of objectively verifiable facts that are positively indicative of, and/or exclusively concordant with, that one conclusion over any other.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with the term "evidence": documentary, physical, empirical, scientific, material, circumstantial, anectodal, objective, strong, weak, conclusive, hard

Derived terms

Related terms

• evident
• evidential

Translations

Verb

evidence (third-person singular simple present evidences, present participle evidencing, simple past and past participle evidenced)

1. (transitive) To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.

Usage notes

• To be distinguished from evince.

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:evidence.

Further reading

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??v?d?nt?s?]
• Rhymes: -?nts?

Noun

evidence f

1. records
2. registry, repository

Related terms

• See vize
• eviden?ní
• evidovat
• evidentní

See also

• záznamy
• databáze
• registr

Further reading

• evidence in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• evidence in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Friulian

Noun

evidence f (plural evidencis)

1. evidence

Middle French

Noun

evidence f (plural evidences)

1. evidence

Descendants

• French: évidence

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dossier.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?s.je?/, /?d?s.je?/, /?d?.si.e?/, /?d?.si.e?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?s.i.e?/

Noun

dossier (plural dossiers)

1. A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.

Translations

Anagrams

• Dosreis

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dossier.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /d???e?/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /d??si?r/
• Hyphenation: dos?sier

Noun

dossier n (plural dossiers, diminutive dossiertje n)

1. dossier
2. file, physical collection of documentation

Derived terms

• dossierbeheerder
• dossierkennis
• dossiervreter
• strafdossier
• medisch dossier

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: dosir

French

Etymology

From dos (“back(side)”) +? -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.sje/

Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers)

1. back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on
2. dossier
3. (computing) folder
4. An organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder.
5. (figuratively) case, notably legal

Derived terms

• dosseret m

Gallery

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dossier.

Noun

dossier m (invariable)

1. dossier (collection of papers, especially legal)

Anagrams

• dissero, ordisse, rodessi

Portuguese

Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers)

1. Alternative spelling of dossiê

Spanish

Alternative forms

• dosier

Noun

dossier m (plural dossieres)

1. dossier