Application vs Contract - What's the difference?
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The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.
The thing applied.
* Johnson
* 1857 , John Eadie, ?John Francis Waller, ?William John Macquorn Rankine, The Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography
The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
* (John Locke)
The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
(computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school.
(bureaucracy, legal) A petition, entreaty, or other request.
An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
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, title= (legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
* Robert Recorde, , 1557:
(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
* Wordsworth
* Dr. H. More
(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
To enter into a contract with. (rfex)
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
* Hakluyt
* Strype
To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
* Alexander Pope
* Jonathan Swift
To gain or acquire (an illness).
* 1999 , Davidson C. Umeh, Protect Your Life: A Health Handbook for Law Enforcement Professionals (page 69)
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
* Shakespeare
To betroth; to affiance.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between application and contract
is that application is the act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb while contract is an agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.As an adjective contract is
contracted; affianced; betrothed.As a verb contract is
to draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.application
English
Noun
(en noun)- He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched.
- His body was stripped, laid out upon a table, and covered with a hearsecloth, when some of his attendants perceived symptoms of returning animation, and by the use of warm applications , internal and external, gradually restored him to life.
- If a right course be taken with children, there will not be much need of the application of the common rewards and punishments.
- I make the remark, and leave you to make the '''application .
- The application of a theory to a set of data can be challenging.
- This iPhone application can connect to most social networks.
- December 31 is the deadline for MBA applications .
- Their application for a deferral of the hearing was granted.
Hyponyms
* See alsoSynonyms
* (computer software) software, programReferences
* WordNet 3.0 [http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=application]. ----contract
English
(wikipedia contract)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) contract, from (etyl) contractum, past participle of .Noun
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Hypernyms
* (agreement that is legally binding) agreementHyponyms
* (agreement that is legally binding) bailmentDerived terms
* contractual * fixed-term contract * contract of employmentAdjective
(-)- (Shakespeare)
- But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Ab?tracte'': and other called nombers ''Contracte .
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) contracter, from (etyl) contractum, past participle of . the verb developed after the noun, and originally meant only "draw together"; the sense "make a contract with" developed later.Verb
(en verb)- The snail's body contracted into its shell.
- to contract one's sphere of action
- Years contracting to a moment.
- In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
- The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".
- We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and league with the aforesaid queen.
- Many persons prohibited by law.
- to contract for carrying the mail
- She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
- to contract a debt
- Each from each contract new strength and light.
- Such behaviour we contract by having much conversed with persons of high stature.
- An officer contracted hepatitis B and died after handling the blood-soaked clothing of a homicide victim
- Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
- The truth is, she and I, long since contracted , / Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.