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Docket vs Condense - What's the difference?

docket | condense |

In transitive terms the difference between docket and condense

is that docket is to enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial while condense is to decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.

As a noun docket

is a summary; a brief digest.

As an adjective condense is

condensed; compact; dense.

docket

English

(wikipedia docket)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.
  • (legal) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.
  • (legal) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.
  • An agenda of things to be done.
  • A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.
  • See also

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make an entry in a docket.
  • To label a parcel etc.
  • to docket goods
  • To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.
  • to docket letters and papers
    (Chesterfield)
  • To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.
  • judgments regularly docketed
  • To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
  • (Webster 1913)

    condense

    English

    Alternative forms

    * condence

    Verb

  • To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
  • An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
    Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
  • To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.
  • * Milton
  • In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure.
  • * Motley
  • The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
  • (chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
  • Synonyms

    * (to decrease size or volume) minify

    Antonyms

    * extend * magnify

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
  • The huge condense bodies of planets. — Bentley.
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