Act vs Amendment - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between act and amendment is that act is (countable) something done, a deed while amendment is an alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. As a verb act is to do something.
act English
Noun
( en noun)
A certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the (term).
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Coordinate terms
* (American College Test) SAT , GMAT , MCAT , DAT
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amendment Noun
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An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
In public bodies; Any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
* 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis ", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
(legal) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
- The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
- The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.
That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
- a soil amendment
Synonyms
* improvement
* reformation
Related terms
* amend
* amendable
* amendatory
See also
* engrossed
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* repeal
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