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Admission vs Application - What's the difference?

admission | application |

As nouns the difference between admission and application

is that admission is the act or practice of admitting while application is the act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

admission

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or practice of admitting.
  • * 2012 , Caroline Davies, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 December 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/03/duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge-expecting-baby?intcmp=122]
  • The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.
  • Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
  • The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgment; concession.
  • (legal) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
  • A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
  • Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
  • The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
  • There is no way he has seen that show, the admission is more than he makes in a week.

    Synonyms

    * admittance, concession, acknowledgment, concurrence, allowance

    See also

    * (wikipedia "admission")

    application

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
  • The thing applied.
  • * Johnson
  • He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.
  • * 1857 , John Eadie, ?John Francis Waller, ?William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography
  • His body was stripped, laid out upon a table, and covered with a hearsecloth, when some of his attendants perceived symptoms of returning animation, and by the use of warm applications , internal and external, gradually restored him to life.
  • The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
  • * (John Locke)
  • If a right course be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments.
  • The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
  • I make the remark, and leave you to make the '''application .
    The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.
  • (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
  • This iPhone application can connect to most social networks.
  • A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school.
  • December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications .
  • (bureaucracy, legal) A petition, entreaty, or other request.
  • Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Synonyms

    * (computer software) software, program

    References

    * WordNet 3.0 [http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=application]. ----