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Strength vs Acceptance - What's the difference?

strength | acceptance |

As nouns the difference between strength and acceptance

is that strength is the quality or degree of being strong while acceptance is the act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval.

As a verb strength

is (obsolete) to give strength to; to strengthen.

strength

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The quality or degree of being strong.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength —all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • The intensity of a force or power; potency.
  • * 1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations
    • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  • The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
  • * Bible, (Psalms) xlvi. 1
    • God is our refuge and strength .
  • * (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
    • Certainly there is not a greater strength against temptation.
  • A positive attribute.
  • (obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * fortitude * power * ability * capability * potency * expertise

    Antonyms

    * (The quality of being strong) weakness * (A positive attribute) weakness

    Derived terms

    * bond strength * compressive strength * crushing strength * dielectic strength * fatigue strength * field strength * full-strength * impact strength * industrial-strength * inner strength * ionic strength * party strength * pillar of strength * relative strength * shear strength * strengthen * strengthening * strengthful * strengthless * strengthy * superstrength * tensile strength * tower of strength * ultimate strength * understrength * wet strength * yield strength

    Related terms

    * strong * strongly

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To give strength to; to strengthen.
  • * 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Job IV:
    • Lo! thou hast tau?t ful many men, and thou hast strengthid hondis maad feynt.
    (Chaucer)

    Statistics

    * English words suffixed with -th

    acceptance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete) (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of accepting; a receiving of something offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; especially, favorable reception; approval
    • the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
  • * Isaiah 60:7 :
    • They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.
  • Belief in something; agreement; assent.
  • State of being accepted.
  • * Shakespeare: Rape of Lucrece :
    • Makes it assured of acceptance .
  • (business, finance) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
  • (business, finance) The bill of exchange itself when accepted.
  • An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
  • (legal) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
  • (US, government) The act of an authorized representative of the Government by which the Government assents to ownership by it of existing and identified supplies, or approves specific services rendered, as partial or complete performance of a contract.
  • The usual or accepted meaning of a word or expression.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, pluralonly) A list of horses accepted as starters in a race.

    • Usage notes

    * In modern law, proposal and acceptance are the constituent elements into which all contracts are resolved.

    Derived terms

    * (sense) acceptance of a bill of exchange, acceptance of goods * acceptance of persons * banker's acceptance, trade acceptance

    Synonyms

    * (act of accepting) accepting, receiving, reception, approval * (State of being accepted) acceptableness * (sense) assent

    References

    * * Mozley and Whitely, Law Dictionary : *: What acts shall amount to such an acceptance is often a question of great nicety and difficulty.