different between invitation vs appeal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French invitation, from Latin invitatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n.v??te?.??n/, /?n.v??te?.?n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

invitation (countable and uncountable, plural invitations)

1. The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.

   • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.

   We need to print off fifty invitations for the party.

3. Allurement; enticement.
4. (fencing) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
5. (Christianity) The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
6. (bridge) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest (page 113)

     I assume also that opener would have shown no interest in slam by either bidding 4NT or 50 after the slam invitation of 46.

   • 2011, Gerard Cohen, Bridge Is a Conversation: Part I: the Auction (page 71)

     To any other invitation made by the captain, acceptance or refusal of the invitation is exclusively a question of points within the range advertised in the opening statement, and the invitation is always in the last called suit.

Synonyms

• (solicitation): invitement (obsolete)

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin invitatio, invitationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.vi.ta.sj??/

Noun

invitation f (plural invitations)

1. invitation

Related terms

• inviter

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.vi.ta?tsjon/

Noun

invitation (plural invitationes)

1. invitation

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??pi?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??pil/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Hyphenation: ap?peal

Etymology 1

From Middle English apel, appel (“formal accusation brought in court; a challenge to trial by combat; an appeal to a higher court or authority; plea (for mercy, protection, etc.); pealing (of bells)”) [and other forms], from Old French apel (“a call”) (modern French appel (“a call; an appeal”)), from apeler (“to call; to call out”), from Latin appell?re, adpell?re, respectively the present active infinitives of appell? (“to address as, call by name; to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”) and adpell? (“to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?éd (“at; to”)) + pell? (“to drive, impel, push; to hurl, propel; to banish, expel; to eject, thrust out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“to approach”), from *pel- (“to beat; to drive; to push”)).

Noun

appeal (countable and uncountable, plural appeals)

1. (law)
   1. An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
   2. The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
   3. A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.

   4. (historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
   5. (historical) A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
   6. (historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
2. A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
   1. (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
3. (figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
4. (figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
5. (rhetoric) A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
6. (historical) A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.

Alternative forms

• appeale (obsolete, 16th–17th c.)
• appeall (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

• appellant
• appellate
• appellee
• appellor

Translations

See also

• approvement

Etymology 2

From Middle English apelen, appelen (“to accuse; to make a formal charge before a court, etc., impeach; to challenge to trial by combat; to apply to a higher court or authority for review of a decision; to call upon for a decision, favour, help, etc.; to call by a name”) [and other forms], from Old French apeler (“to call; to call out”); see further at etymology 1.

Verb

appeal (third-person singular simple present appeals, present participle appealing, simple past and past participle appealed)

1. (law)
   1. (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
   2. (transitive, originally US) To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
   3. (transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
   4. (transitive, historical) Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
   5. (transitive, historical) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
2. (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
   1. (intransitive, cricket) Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
3. (intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.
6. (transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• appeal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• appeal (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• appeal at OneLook Dictionary Search
• appeal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English appeal.

Noun

appeal

1. appeal (power to attract or interest)
2. sex appeal

Anagrams

• papale