Protocol vs Law - What's the difference?
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* 1842 , Thomas Campbell, Frederick the Great and his Times , vol. II, p. 47:
* 1970 , Matthew Smith Anderson, The Great Powers and the Near East, 1774-1923 , p. 32:
(international law) An amendment to an official treaty.
* 2002 , Philippe Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law , p. 917 n. 253:
The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
* 1991 , Leila Avrin, Scribes, Script, and Books , p. 146:
The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
* 1985 , Archivum Historiae Pontificiae , v. 23, p. 14:
(sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment; also, the precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
* 1931 , Gye & Purdy, The Cause of Cancer , p. 194:
The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state.
* 2009 , Laura Johnson, "A mwah too far", The Guardian , 19 Sep 2009:
(by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
* 2010 , The Guardian , 16 Jul 2010:
(computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
* 2006 , Zheng & Ni, Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing , p. 444:
(medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
(obsolete) To make a protocol of.
(obsolete) To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.
(lb) The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
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, title= A particular such rule.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
(lb) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are usually associated with mores.
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A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word is used to simply identify "what happens," without implying any explanatory mechanism or causation. Compare to theory.
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(lb) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
A category of English "common law" petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to "equity".
(lb) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
The police.
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(lb) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.
An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
(obsolete) a tumulus of stones
a hill
* 1892 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
As a noun protocol
is .As a verb protocol
is (obsolete|transitive) to make a protocol of.As a proper noun law is
or law can be , perhaps originally meaning someone who lives near a burial mound or law can be (judaism) the torah.protocol
English
(wikipedia protocol)Noun
(en noun)- Another account says that, on the morning of the 31st of May, the king delivered to the prince-royal the crown, the sceptre, and the key of his treasure and gave him his blessing. The privy-counsillor Vockerodt drew up at his desire a protocol of the transaction.
- The terms of this protocol formed the basis for the Treaty of London signed by the British, French and Russian governments on 6 July 1827.
- The 1992 Protocol amended the definitions of other terms, including ‘ship’, ‘oil’ and ‘incident’: Art. 2.
- They marked the beginning of each scroll with their protocol''''', a practice that continued in the papyrus trade in the Byzantine Empire [...] into the Islamic period, when there were bilingual ' protocols in Greek and Arabic.
- The protocol of the bull contains elements that appear to be formulaic by the time of John XVIII 's pontificate.
- The following is an abstract of the protocol of the experiment: Tumour extract. —A measured 16 c.c. of minced Rous Sarcoma tissue was ground with sand and extracted with 400 c.c. of 0.8-per-cent. saline.
- Even the Queen (for whom the curtsey is a more standard address) was recently treated to an enthusiastic Obama embrace. Her Majesty, who is not normally known for partaking in such public displays of affection, seemed unperturbed by Michelle Obama's disregard for royal protocol .
- For those uncertain in the protocol of handshaking a formula for the perfect handshake has been devised by scientists at the University of Manchester.
- An exception is Jabber, which is designed based on an open protocol called the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP).
Synonyms
* procedure * policyVerb
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Anagrams
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English
(wikipedia law)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lawe, and gesetnes. More at (l).Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
Hyponyms
* sharia lawDerived terms
* above the law * against the law * a law unto oneself * * Avogadro’s law * Beer-Lambert law * Boyle’s law * bylaw * canon law * Charles’ law * civil law * common law * contract law * corn laws * Coulomb’s law * criminal law * de Morgan’s laws * employment law * family law * Faraday’s laws * federal law * feudal law * Fourier’s law * Gauss’s law * Graham’s law * Gresham’s law * Henry’s law * Hooke’s law * Hubble’s law * international law * into law * Kepler’s laws of planetary motion * Kerchoff’s laws * law and order * lawful * lawgiver * lawlike * law lord * lawmaker, law-maker * law of cosines * law of large numbers * law of sines * law of small numbers * law of tangents * law of the land * law of the tongue * lay down the law * long arm of the law * lynch law * martial law * Moore’s law * Murphy's law * natural law * Newton’s law of cooling * Newton’s law of gravitation * Newton’s laws of motion * Ohm’s law * physical law * power law * Poiseuille’s law * possession is nine points of the law * property law * Roman law * statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US) * state law * statute law (Commonwealth English) * Stefan-Boltzmann law * Stokes’ law * sus law * take the law into one’s own hands * the law is an ass * three laws of robotics * unwritten law * Zipf’s lawSee also
* * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Also spelled low.Noun
(en noun)- You might climb the Law [...] and behold the face of many counties.
Etymology 3
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