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Cite vs Arraign - What's the difference?

cite | arraign |

As verbs the difference between cite and arraign

is that cite is to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another while arraign is to officially charge someone in a court of law.

As nouns the difference between cite and arraign

is that cite is a citation while arraign is arraignment.

cite

English

Verb

(cit)
  • To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}
  • To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
  • To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
  • Derived terms

    * citation

    See also

    * attest * quote

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A citation.
  • We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    arraign

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  • To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
  • * Dryden
  • They will not arraign you for want of knowledge.
  • * I. Taylor
  • It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • arraignment
  • the clerk of the arraigns
    (Blackstone)
    (Macaulay)

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