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Candidate vs Tentative - What's the difference?

candidate | tentative |

As nouns the difference between candidate and tentative

is that candidate is a person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job while tentative is a trial; an experiment.

As an adjective tentative is

of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.

candidate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.
  • A participant in an examination.
  • Something or somebody maybe suitable for or in danger of something or somebody.
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  • , title= Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily? , volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.}}
  • Synonym for candidate gene.
  • Derived terms

    * candidacy * Manchurian candidate

    References

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    tentative

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A trial; an experiment.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
  • Uncertain; subject to future change.
  • Derived terms

    * tentativeness

    Anagrams

    * attentive ----