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Admission vs Omission - What's the difference?

admission | omission |

As nouns the difference between admission and omission

is that admission is the act or practice of admitting while omission is the act of omitting.

admission

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or practice of admitting.
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  • The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.
  • Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
  • The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgment; concession.
  • (legal) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
  • A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence
  • Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
  • The cost or fee associated with attendance or entry.
  • There is no way he has seen that show, the admission is more than he makes in a week.

    Synonyms

    * admittance, concession, acknowledgment, concurrence, allowance

    See also

    * (wikipedia "admission")

    omission

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of omitting.
  • The act of neglecting to perform an action one has an obligation to do.
  • Something deleted or left out.
  • Something not done or neglected.
  • (grammar) The shortening of a word or phrase, using an apostrophe ( ' ) to replace the missing letters, often used to approximate the sound of speech or a specific dialect.
  • Usage notes

    Following are common examples of omission using an apostrophe: : six o’clock (shortening of “six of the clock”) : The high school class of ’69 (shortening of “1969”) : O’er there (shortening of “over there”) * From Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : *: S’pose people left money laying around where he was—what did he do? He collared it. S’pose he contracted to do a thing; and you paid him, and didn’t set down there and see that he done it—what did he do? He always done the other thing. S’pose he opened his mouth—what then? If he didn't shut it up powerful quick, he'd lose a lie, every time. That’s the kind of a bug Henry was; and if we’d ’a’ had him along ’stead of our kings, he’d ’a’ fooled that town a heap worse than ourn done.

    See also

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