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Submitted vs Advocated - What's the difference?

submitted | advocated |

As verbs the difference between submitted and advocated

is that submitted is (submit) while advocated is (advocate).

submitted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (submit)

  • submit

    English

    Verb

    (submitt)
  • To yield or give way to another.
  • They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
  • or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
  • I submit these plans for your approval.
  • * Macaulay
  • We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
  • (mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
  • * '>citation
  • "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
  • (obsolete) To let down; to lower.
  • * Dryden
  • Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
  • (obsolete) To put or place under.
  • * Chapman
  • The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

    Derived terms

    * submittable * submittal * submitter

    advocated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (advocate)

  • advocate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel.
  • Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor.
  • * c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), Richard III , First Folio 1623:
  • I neuer did incense his Maiestie / Against the Duke of Clarence, but haue bin / An earnest aduocate to plead for him.
  • A person who speaks in support of something.
  • * 2011 , Alix Lee, The Guardian , 9 Oct 2011:
  • He became a tireless advocate for the needs of adults with IMD throughout Britain and internationally.
  • A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.
  • ''Since she started working with her advocate , she has become much more confident.

    Derived terms

    * devil's advocate

    Verb

    (advocat)
  • (label) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Bishop Sanderson
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Burke)
  • (label) To encourage support for something.
  • To engage in advocacy.
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