Entitle vs Entity - What's the difference?
entitle | entity |
give a title to
dignify by an honorary designation.
give authority (to do something)
give rightful ownership
give a title to a book, film, play, etc.
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
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An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
(computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
The state or quality of being or existence.
* Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity --
As a verb entitle
is give a title to.As a noun entity is
that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.entitle
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic) * intitle (archaic or nonstandard)Verb
(entitl)Synonyms
* (give a title to a book) name * designate * empower * qualify * enableDerived terms
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(wikipedia entity)Noun
(entities)- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities .
- The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.