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Testimonial vs Clearance - What's the difference?

testimonial | clearance |

As nouns the difference between testimonial and clearance

is that testimonial is a statement, especially one given under oath; testimony while clearance is the act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.

As an adjective testimonial

is serving as testimony.

testimonial

English

(wikipedia testimonial)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A statement, especially one given under oath; testimony
  • A written recommendation of someone's worth or character
  • A tribute given in appreciation of someone's service etc.
  • (football) A match played in tribute to a particular player (who sometimes receives a proportion of the gate money).

    • Related terms

    * testify * testimony

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Serving as testimony.
    • a testimonial statement

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    clearance

    English

    Noun

  • The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared
  • The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
  • The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom.
  • A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
    • The plane got clearance from air traffic control, and we were off.
    He got clearance to travel to America, even though he had previous links to terrorists
  • A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information
  • A sale of merchandise at a reduced price.
  • (banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
  • (medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
  • (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
  • (soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Chris Whyatt , title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance .}}
  • (chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
  • Clear or net profit.
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