Surface vs Audit - What's the difference?
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The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
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, chapter=Foreword The outside hull of a tangible object.
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, title= (lb) Outward or external appearance.
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*(Vicesimus Knox) (1752-1821)
*:Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface .
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.
(lb) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
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To provide something with a surface.
To apply a surface to something.
To rise to the surface.
To come out of hiding.
For information or facts to become known.
To work a mine near the surface.
To appear or be found.
An audience; a hearing.
* Milton
An examination in general.
A judicial examination.
An independent review and examination of records and activities to assess the adequacy of system controls, to ensure compliance with established policies and operational procedures, and to recommend necessary changes in controls, policies, or procedures
The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
* Shakespeare
(Scientology) Spiritual counseling, which forms the core of Dianetics.
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(obsolete) A general receptacle or receiver.
* Jeremy Taylor
To examine and adjust (e.g. an account).
(finance, business) To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes
(Scientology) To counsel spiritually.
* 2011 , Diane Saks, Overcoming Celebrity Obsession (page 225)
To attend an academic class on a not-for-academic-credit basis.
As verbs the difference between surface and audit
is that surface is while audit is to examine and adjust (eg an account).As a noun audit is
an audience; a hearing.surface
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
The climate of Tibet: Pole-land, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.}}
Synonyms
* overside * superfice (archaic)Derived terms
* surface mail * surficialVerb
audit
English
(wikipedia audit)Noun
(en noun)- He appeals to a high audit .
- National Assembly audit
- Yet I can make my audit up.
- It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud.
Derived terms
* audit ale * audit house * audit roomVerb
(en verb)- to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court
- In John's case, I suspect, when he lost Diana he went back to his Scientology church to be audited .