different between harmony vs submission

English

Etymology

First attested in 1602. From Middle English armonye, from Old French harmonie/armonie, from Latin harmonia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (harmonía, “joint, union, agreement, concord of sounds”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??m?ni/
• Homophone: hominy (god-guard merger and weak vowel merger)

Noun

harmony (countable and uncountable, plural harmonies)

1. Agreement or accord.
   • December 4 2010, Evan Thomas, "Why It’s Time to Worry", in Newsweekk

     America's social harmony has depended at least to some degree on economic growth. It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead.

2. A pleasing combination of elements, or arrangement of sounds.
3. (music) The academic study of chords.
4. (music) Two or more notes played simultaneously to produce a chord.
5. (music) The relationship between two distinct musical pitches (musical pitches being frequencies of vibration which produce audible sound) played simultaneously.
6. A literary work which brings together or arranges systematically parallel passages of historians respecting the same events, and shows their agreement or consistency.

   a harmony of the Gospels

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Further reading

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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English submissioun, from Old French soubmission, from Latin submissio, from submitto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?b?m???n/

Noun

submission (countable and uncountable, plural submissions)

1. The act of submitting or yielding; surrender.
2. The act of submitting or giving e.g. a completed piece of work.

   Any submissions received after Friday will have marks deducted for lateness.

3. The thing which has been submitted.
4. A submission hold in wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other combat sports.

Synonyms

• (act of yielding): acquiescence, capitulation, concession, giving in, submittal, obeyance, yielding
• (thing submitted): submittal

Antonyms

• (act of yielding): rebellion, control

Translations

Etymology 2

sub- +? mission

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?b?m???n/

Noun

submission (plural submissions)

1. A subset or component of a mission.

Middle English

Noun

submission

1. Alternative form of submissioun