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Adjudication vs Concourse - What's the difference?

adjudication | concourse |

As nouns the difference between adjudication and concourse

is that adjudication is the act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement while concourse is a large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal.

adjudication

English

(wikipedia adjudication)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of adjudicating, of reaching a judgement.
  • A judgment or sentence.
  • * Burke
    • An adjudication in favour of natural rights.
  • * 2007 , Houston Chronicle (6/17/2007)
    • [Mr. C.] says he confessed to avoid a lengthier sentence after his original attorney told him that the prosecutor claimed DNA evidence conclusively identified him as the attacker. [Mr. C.] had an earlier deferred adjudication for indecency with a minor.
  • (legal) The decision upon the question of whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
    • (Abbott)
  • (emergency response) The process of identifying the type of material or device that set off an alarm and assessing the potential threat with corresponding implications for the need to take further action.
  • (legal, Scotland) A process by which land is attached as security or in satisfaction of a debt.

    • Related terms

    * adjudicator

    concourse

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia concourse) (en noun)
  • A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal.
  • A large group of people; a crowd.
  • * , The Publisher to the Reader
    • About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
  • * Prescott
    • Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.
  • The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
  • * 1662 - Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , First Day:
    • ... there was only wanting the concourse of rains ...
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
    • The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses.
  • An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
  • (obsolete) concurrence; cooperation
  • * Barrow
    • The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.

    Usage notes

    In sense "open space", particularly used of indoor spaces, by contrast with (m), (m), (m), etc. However, may be used for outdoor spaces as well, primarily high-traffic areas in front of a building.

    Coordinate terms

    * (open space) (l), (l)