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Audit vs Belief - What's the difference?

audit | belief |

As nouns the difference between audit and belief

is that audit is an audience; a hearing while belief is mental acceptance of a claim as likely true.

As a verb audit

is to examine and adjust (e.g. an account).

audit

English

(wikipedia audit)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An audience; a hearing.
  • * Milton
  • He appeals to a high audit .
  • An examination in general.
  • A judicial examination.
  • An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures
  • National Assembly audit
  • The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Yet I can make my audit up.
  • (Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
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  • (obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.

    Derived terms

    * audit ale * audit house * audit room

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).
  • to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court
  • (finance, business) To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes
  • (Scientology) To counsel spiritually.
  • * 2011 , Diane Saks, Overcoming Celebrity Obsession (page 225)
  • In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited .
  • To attend an academic class on a not-for-academic-credit basis.
  • belief

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mental acceptance of a claim as likely true.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-12-06, author=(George Monbiot)
  • , volume=189, issue=26, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Why I'm eating my words on veganism – again , passage=The belief that there is no conflict between [livestock] farming and arable production also seems to be unfounded: by preventing the growth of trees and other deep vegetation in the hills and by compacting the soil, grazing animals cause a cycle of flash floods and drought, sporadically drowning good land downstream and reducing the supply of irrigation water.}}
  • Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered.
  • (countable) Something believed.
  • (uncountable) The quality or state of believing.
  • (uncountable) Religious faith.
  • (in the plural) One's religious or moral convictions.
  • Derived terms

    * * beyond belief * disbelief * self-belief * unbelief