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Testimony vs Deposition - What's the difference?

testimony | deposition |

In lang=en terms the difference between testimony and deposition

is that testimony is statements made by a witness in court while deposition is the process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.

As a proper noun Deposition is

the removal of Jesus from the cross.

testimony

Alternative forms

* testimonie (obsolete)

Noun

(testimonies)
  • (legal) statements made by a witness in court.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , date = 21 August 2012 , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991. }}
  • An account of first-hand experience.
  • * Milton
  • [Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne / Universal reproach.
  • In a church service, a personal account, such as of one's conversion.
  • Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
  • * Bible Mark vi. 11
  • When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them.

    Derived terms

    * compel testimony * testimonial

    deposition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The removal of someone from office.
  • The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
  • (chemistry) The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
  • (legal) The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
  • (meteorology) The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
  • (physics) The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)
  • (religion) The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.
  • Synonyms

    * desublimation

    Antonyms

    * erosion, corrosion * sublimation

    Derived terms

    * thin film deposition * vapor deposition

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