Invitation vs Invite - What's the difference?
invitation | invite |
The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
A document written or printed, or spoken words, conveying the message by which one is invited.
Allurement; enticement.
(lb) A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
To request formally.
To encourage.
* 1902 , Roosevelt,
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
* Milton
* Dryden
* Cowper
As nouns the difference between invitation and invite
is that invitation is the act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company while invite is an invitation.As a verb invite is
to ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.invitation
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Noun
(en noun)invite
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Verb
- We invited our friends round for dinner.
- I invite you all to be seated.
- I always invite criticism of my definitions.
- Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
- The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
- to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- There no delusive hope invites despair.