Acceptance vs Expression - What's the difference?
acceptance | expression |
The act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval
* Isaiah 60:7 :
Belief in something; agreement; assent.
State of being accepted.
* Shakespeare: Rape of Lucrece :
(business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
(business, finance) The bill of exchange itself when accepted.
An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
(legal) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
(US, government) The act of an authorized representative of the Government by which the Government assents to ownership by it of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
(Australia, New Zealand, pluralonly) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.
A particular way of phrasing an idea.
A colloquialism or idiom.
A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 (mathematics) An arrangement of symbols denoting values, operations performed on them, and grouping symbols.
(biology) The process of translating a gene into a protein.
(programming) A piece of code in a high-level language that returns a value.
Of a mother, the process of expressing milk.
As nouns the difference between acceptance and expression
is that acceptance is the act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval while expression is a particular way of phrasing an idea.acceptance
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) (l)Noun
(en noun)- the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
- They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.
- Makes it assured of acceptance .
Usage notes
* In modern law, proposal and acceptance are the constituent elements into which all contracts are resolved.Derived terms
* (sense) acceptance of a bill of exchange, acceptance of goods * acceptance of persons * banker's acceptance, trade acceptanceSynonyms
* (act of accepting) accepting, receiving, reception, approval * (State of being accepted) acceptableness * (sense) assentReferences
* * Mozley and Whitely, Law Dictionary : *: What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty.expression
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(wikipedia expression)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}