Acknowledgment vs Attestation - What's the difference?
acknowledgment | attestation |
The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession.
The act of owning or recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition as regards the existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
An award or other expression or token of appreciation.
An owning with gratitude of a benefit or an obligation (as in "acknowledgment" of a favor).
A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood, as a wedding invitation's acknowledgment .
(Telecommunications, computing, networking) A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission.
An owning as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form (as in "acknowledgment of a deed").
(legal) A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, authenticate, validation, verification, documentation.
A confirmation or authentication.
(business, finance) The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business information of a business, public agency, or other organization.
(linguistics, of a language or word) An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.
* 1997 , Roger Lass, Historical Linguistics and Language Change ,
* 2009 , Ingo Plag, Maria Braun, Sabine Lappe, Mareile Schramm, Introduction to English Linguistics ,
* 2010 , Kathryn Allan, Tracing metonymic polysemy through time: MATERIAL FOR OBJECT mappings in the OED'', Margaret E. Winters, Heli Tissari, Kathryn Allan (editors), ''Historical Cognitive Linguistics ,
As nouns the difference between acknowledgment and attestation
is that acknowledgment is the act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession while attestation is a thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, authenticate, validation, verification, documentation.acknowledgment
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Alternative forms
* acknowledgement (UK)Noun
(en noun)- See Wikipedia article on
Synonyms
* (act of acknowledging) confession, concession, recognition, admission, avowal, recognizance, ACKExternal links
* *attestation
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Noun
(Attested language) (en noun)page 23,
- So something must have been developing over long periods empty of attestation ; and whatever it was, it must (by principles to be discussed in the next section) have been a language of the usual kind.
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- For each word, the date of its first attestation in the English language, as documented in the Oxford English Dictionary'', and its frequency of occurrence in the ''British National Corpus are given.
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- Furthermore, the first attestations' given in the ''OED'' are not always the earliest '''attestations''' in print; since the first edition was finished in 1928, many earlier and later examples have been identified, and these will be incorporated into the third edition, currently underway (see Durkin 2002 for a discussion of how much this is likely to change the dates of '''attestation in the ''OED as a whole).
