What's the difference between acceptance and friendliness?

Acceptance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc.
  • (n.) State of being accepted; acceptableness.
  • (n.) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance.
  • (n.) The bill itself when accepted.
  • (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.
  • (n.) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law.
  • (n.) Meaning; acceptation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
  • (2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (3) Theresa May signals support for UK-EU membership deal Read more Faull’s fix, largely accepted by Britain, also ties the hands of national governments.
  • (4) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
  • (5) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (6) Socially acceptable urinary control was achieved in 90 per cent of the 139 patients with active devices in place.
  • (7) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
  • (8) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
  • (9) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
  • (10) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
  • (11) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
  • (12) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
  • (13) Urologic evaluation of all patients with congenital scoliosis is recommended; however, diagnostic ultrasonographic evaluations of the urinary tract have proven to be an acceptable alternative as an initial screening modality.
  • (14) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (15) The correlations between the objective risk estimates and the subjective risk estimates were low overall (r = 0.089, p = 0.08); for women rejecting (r = 0.024, p = 0.44) or accepting (r = 0.082, p = 0.12) amniocentesis.
  • (16) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
  • (17) The continence achieved in this case seems to be in contradiction to some of the accepted concepts of the mechanisms of continence.
  • (18) The feedback I have had reveals how accepting people are of different cultures and religions.
  • (19) If no other indication to operate occurs, we accept a conservative treatment of the humeral fracture with radial palsy.
  • (20) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.

Friendliness


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition or quality of being friendly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Everywhere I was treated with friendliness and kindness by service users, usually depicted as "low life" and "inadequates".
  • (2) A multivariate discriminate analysis of 13 variables on 91 healthy and 63 nervous dogs assayed at 3 months of age shows: (1) that much of our present behavioral testing procedures is redundant, and (2) that simple "friendliness to humans" in the dog is as effective for discriminating between the two groups as any of the 13 measures, taken either singly or collectively.
  • (3) Skipton's high street is a past winner of the Academy of Urbanism's ( academyofurbanism.org.uk) award for the greatest street in the land judged on criteria including user friendliness, local character and distinctiveness, environmental and social sustainability and commercial success and viability.
  • (4) The firmness of a handshake carries meaning as clearly as words, in the same way that a smile radiates confidence and friendliness.
  • (5) Its people ask very little but offer all they have - hospitality, warmth, friendliness and willingness to help.
  • (6) Most designations of bike-friendliness have gone not to proper cities but college towns: Davis, Boulder, Long Beach, Iowa City – places that, while pleasant enough, command little national, let alone international import.
  • (7) Attention is paid to the anti-decubitus quality, the users-friendliness for medical attendants, nursing attendants and the patient himself, the maintenance-friendliness and the cost-price.
  • (8) If you add the inauguration pivot to the president's other recent contacts with the business world, you get something that looks almost like friendliness.
  • (9) Significant improvements in the accessibility, operation and user-friendliness of the program have been made, facilitated by recent advances in microcomputer technology.
  • (10) The IMAGE image analysis language guarantees user friendliness, and, last but not least, the enormous amount of software offers accurate, reproducible measurements and dedicated evaluation programs.
  • (11) ", the mock friendliness sounding especially hollow.
  • (12) Especially on-trend these days is an ersatz, kitschy friendliness .
  • (13) A multicenter field trial is currently gathering data that will allow researchers to compare the performance characteristics of each set of criteria, including dimensions such as classification rates, reliability, and user-friendliness.
  • (14) It is argued that it is not helpful to view evaluation as a method for achieving user-friendliness, rather it should be seen as a participating activity within design and development.
  • (15) The "user-friendliness" and efficacy of this percutaneous filter makes it a treatment of choice in the partial interruption of the inferior vena cava.
  • (16) Given my tendency to wear women’s clothes, while looking like a man, I expect I could have got beaten up easily.” Six UK universities get top marks for gay-friendliness Read more However, Grainger says that universities can only do so much to support students.
  • (17) If the climate friendliness of the third runway depends on huge, politically unimaginable tax rises on flights by the UK government and an end to international buck passing, what is to be done?
  • (18) Thoughtfulness and Personal Relations showed cultural declines during the time period studied, whereas Friendliness showed a long-term cultural decline.
  • (19) Ghana was selected because of its friendliness, enthusiasm for the project, and helpful co-operation given in initial planning.
  • (20) Hostility decreased and friendliness increased in depressives after amitriptyline; upon recovery, there were no significant differences in hostility between depressed patients and control subjects, whereas such differences were striking during the illness.