different between invitation vs petition

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

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French peticiun, from stem of Latin petitio, petitionem (“a request, solicitation”), from petere (“to require, seek, go forward”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??t?.??n/

Noun

petition (plural petitions)

1. A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
2. A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.

3. (law) A formal written request for judicial action.
4. A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.

   • A house of prayer and petition for thy people.

Translations

Verb

petition (third-person singular simple present petitions, present participle petitioning, simple past and past participle petitioned)

1. (transitive) To make a request to, commonly in written form.

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