Verdict vs Vote - What's the difference?
verdict | vote |
(lb) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty —is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
An opinion or judgement.
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A formalized choice on matters of administration or other democratic activities.
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An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot.
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*:The freeman casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
(label) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
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To cast a vote; to assert a formalised choice in an election.
* F. W. Robertson
As a noun verdict
is (lb) a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.As a verb vote is
.verdict
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(wikipedia verdict)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* verdictiveExternal links
* * ----vote
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* donkey vote * conscience vote * free vote * get out the vote * informal vote * subvote * vote mob * whipped voteVerb
(vot)- The depository may vote shares on behalf of investors who have not submitted instruction to the bank.
- To vote' on large principles, to ' vote honestly, requires a great amount of information.
