Confirmation vs Rapid - What's the difference?
confirmation | rapid |
An official indicator that things will happen as planned
Verification that something has happened
A sacrament of sealing and strengthening in many Christian Churches, often including a ceremony of anointing
* {{quote-song
, year = 1977
, title = (Only the Good Die Young)
, composer = (Billy Joel)
, album =
, passage = You got a nice white dress / and a party on your confirmation . / You've got a brand new soul, / mm, and a cross of gold.
}}
Very swift or quick.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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, title= Steep, changing altitude quickly. (of a slope)
Needing only a brief exposure time. (of a lens, plate, film, etc.)
(England, dialectal) Violent, severe.
(obsolete, dialectal) Happy.
(often, in the plural) a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.
(dated) A burst of rapid fire.
As nouns the difference between confirmation and rapid
is that confirmation is an official indicator that things will happen as planned while rapid is a rough section of a river or stream which is difficult to navigate due to the swift and turbulent motion of the water.As an adjective rapid is
very swift or quick.As an adverb rapid is
rapidly.confirmation
English
Noun
(en noun)rapid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels.
citation, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy …, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}