Concourse vs Convention - What's the difference?
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A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal.
A large group of people; a crowd.
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The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
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An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
(obsolete) concurrence; cooperation
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A meeting or gathering.
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A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
The convening of a formal meeting
A formal agreement, contract or pact
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
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Concourse is a related term of convention.
As nouns the difference between concourse and convention
is that concourse is a large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal while convention is a meeting or gathering.concourse
English
Noun
(wikipedia concourse) (en noun)- About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
- Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.
- ... there was only wanting the concourse of rains ...
- The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.
- The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses.
- The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.
Usage notes
In sense "open space", particularly used of indoor spaces, by contrast with (m), (m), (m), etc. However, may be used for outdoor spaces as well, primarily high-traffic areas in front of a building.Coordinate terms
* (open space) (l), (l)convention
English
(wikipedia convention)Noun
(en noun)- The convention was held in Geneva.
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- ''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
- ''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)
- ''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
- The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.