Consideration vs Application - What's the difference?
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The thought process of considering, of taking everything into account.
Something considered as a reason or ground for a (possible) decision.
The tendency to consider others.
A payment or other recompense for something done.
(legal) A matter of inducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as a contract.
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Importance, claim to notice, regard.
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The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
The thing applied.
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* 1857 , John Eadie, ?John Francis Waller, ?William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography
The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
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The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
(computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school.
(bureaucracy, legal) A petition, entreaty, or other request.
As nouns the difference between consideration and application
is that consideration is the thought process of considering, of taking everything into account while application is the act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.consideration
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Noun
(en noun)- ''After much consideration, I have decided to stay.
- ''You showed remarkable consideration in giving up your place for your friend.
- ''Will you noisy children show some consideration and stop your infernal screaming? I'm trying to study!
- ''Sure I'll move my car, but only for a consideration .
- [...] settled down on a small property he had near Quimper to live for the rest of his days in peace; but the failure of an attorney left him suddenly penniless, and neither he nor his wife was willing to live in penury where they had enjoyed consideration .
application
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Noun
(en noun)- He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.
- His body was stripped, laid out upon a table, and covered with a hearsecloth, when some of his attendants perceived symptoms of returning animation, and by the use of warm applications , internal and external, gradually restored him to life.
- If a right course be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments.
- I make the remark, and leave you to make the '''application .
- The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.
- This iPhone application can connect to most social networks.
- December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications .
- Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.