Account vs Present - What's the difference?
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(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review
(banking) A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.
A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
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A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.
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(business) A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.
A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description
* (rfdate) A laudable account of the city of London. - Howell
A statement explaining one's conduct.
* (rfdate) Give an account of thy stewardship. - Luke 16:2
An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
* (rfdate) To stand high in your account - Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, III-ii
Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
* (rfdate) Men of account -
* (rfdate) To turn to account - Shakespeare
An authorization to use a service.
(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.
Profit; advantage.
to provide explanation
# (obsolete) To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.
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# To estimate, consider (something to be as described).
#* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), , III.8:
# To consider (that).
#* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, Hebrews XI.19:
# To give a satisfactory evaluation (for) financial transactions, money received etc.
# To give a satisfactory evaluation (for) (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer (for).
# To give a satisfactory reason (for); to explain.
# To establish the location (for) someone.
# To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ (for)).
to count
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#* 1646 , (Sir Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica :
# (obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.
# (obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
Relating to now, for the time being; current.
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(obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
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(obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
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(dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
(obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
* Dryden
A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.
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, title= (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 71:
(reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
* Bible, Job i. 6
To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
* Alexander Pope
To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
* 1927 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes :
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To put on, stage (a play etc.).
(military) To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
(reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
(medicine) To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.
(medicine) To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
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To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
As nouns the difference between account and present
is that account is (accounting) a registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review while present is present tense.As a verb account
is to provide explanation.As an adjective present is
present (that what''/''which is in the place talked about ).account
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Etymology 1
* First attested around 1300. ((reckoning of moneys received and paid)) * (banking) First attested in 1833. * (narration) First attested in the 1610's. * From (etyl), from (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- to keep one's account at the bank.
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- No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.
- on no account
- on every account
- on all accounts
- ...who evidently a glutton for work, it struck him, was having a quiet forty winks for all intents and purposes on his own private account while Dublin slept.
- An account of a battle.
- I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.
Usage notes
* Abbreviations: (business) * of Account , narrative, narration, recital. These words are applied to different modes of rehearsing a series of events * Account' turns attention not so much to the speaker as to the fact related, and more properly applies to the report of some single event, or a group of incidents taken as whole; as, an ' account of a battle, of a shipwreck, etc. * A narrative' is a continuous story of connected incidents, such as one friend might tell to another; as, a '''narrative''' of the events of a siege, a ' narrative of one's life, etc. * Narration' is usually the same as '''narrative''', but is sometimes used to describe the '''mode''' of relating events; as, his powers of ' narration are uncommonly great. * Recital' denotes a series of events drawn out into minute particulars, usually expressing something which peculiarly interests the feelings of the speaker; as, the ' recital of one's wrongs, disappointments, sufferings, etc.Quotations
* (English Citations of "account")Synonyms
* (registry of pecuniary transactions) * (statement of occurrences) narrative, narration, relation, recital, description, explanation * (a statement of reasons) accounting, explanation * (a reason) * (a vindication) defense, excuse, explanation * (estimate) * * (authorization to use a service) membership, registration, usernameDerived terms
(Financial terms) * account balance * account book * account code * account executive * account number * account payable * account receivable * account stated * active account * bank account * book account * capital account * cash account * cast accounts * charge account * checking account * concentration account * control account * credit account * current account * custodial account * deferred account * deposit account * discretionary account * dormant account * drawing account * escrow account * expense account * final account * frozen account * general account * giro account * house account * insured account * joint account * managed account * margin account * merchant account * mixed account * money of account * nostro account * NOW account * numbered account * omnibus account * open account * option account * overdraft checking account * pension account * profit and loss account * reserved account * restricted account * retirement account * savings account * separate account * share premium account * suspense account * sweep account * trading account * transaction account * trust account * trustee account * undermargined account * undivided account * valuation account * vostro account * western account * wrap account * zero-balance account (Non-financial terms) * account current: a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account * call to account * cast up one's accounts * hold to account * in account with: in a relation requiring an account to be kept * no-account * on account of: for the sake of; by reason of; because of * on no account * on one's own account: for one's own interest or behalf * make account: (Obsolete): to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon * make account of: to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes' small ' account of beauty * shell account * short account * take account of, or take into account: to take into consideration; to notice * a writ of account: (Law): a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account, or show good cause to the contrary; -- called also an action of account - Cowell * take into account * theoretical accountEtymology 2
From (etyl) acounter, (accomptere) et al., (etyl) aconter, (acompter), from (a-) + . Compare (count).Verb
(en verb)- The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
- Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
- An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
- We must account for the use of our opportunities.
- Idleness accounts for poverty.
- After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
- neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted , consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.
- Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].
Derived terms
* account for * account ofStatistics
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Alternative forms
* (archaic or pedantic) *Etymology 1
(wikipedia present) From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) praesent-, praesens present participle of .Adjective
(-)- The barbaric practice continues to the present day.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
- Amongst this number of cordials and alteratives I do not find a more present remedy than a cup of wine or strong drink, if it be soberly and opportunely used.
- a present pardon
- An ambassadordesires a present audience.
- a present wit
- to find a god so present to my prayer
Antonyms
* (in vicinity) absentDerived terms
* all present and correct * at present * at the present time * present company excepted * presently * present participle * present tenseDerived terms
* no time like the present * present-dayEtymology 2
From (etyl) presenten'', from (etyl) ''presenter'', from (etyl) ''presentare'' "to show", from (etyl) ''praesent-, praesens'' present participle of ''praeesse "to be in front of".Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present , that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}
Verb
(en verb)- to present an envoy to the king
- In the diocese of Gloucester in 1548 two inhabitants of Slimbridge were presented for saying that holy oil was ‘of no virtue but meet to grease sheep’.
- Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the lord.
- So ladies in romance assist their knight, / Present the spear, and arm him for the fight.
- I do begin to realize that the matter must be presented in such a way as may interest the reader.
citation, passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented' to citizens affects what they choose, society should ' present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
- The theater is proud to present the Fearless Fliers.
- Well, one idea does present itself.
- The patient presented with insomnia.
- Anne Robinson presents "The Weakest Link".
- She was presented with an honorary degree for her services to entertainment.
- My last, least offering, I present thee now.
- I presented my compliments to Lady Featherstoneshaw.