What's the difference between account and testimony?

Account


Definition:

  • (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
  • (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
  • (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
  • (n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
  • (n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
  • (n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
  • (n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
  • (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.
  • (v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
  • (v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
  • (v. t.) To recount; to relate.
  • (v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
  • (v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
  • (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
  • (2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (3) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (4) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
  • (5) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (6) Thus, it appears that neuronal loss may account for up to roughly half of the striatal D2 receptor loss during aging.
  • (7) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (8) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
  • (9) This decrease cannot be accounted for by increased turnover of the mRNA in the presence of the drug.
  • (10) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
  • (12) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
  • (13) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (14) This study examines the extent to which changes in smoking can account for the decrease in CHD mortality for men and women aged 35-64 years.
  • (15) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
  • (16) The multiple logistic model, the most commonly used model for the analysis of coronary heart disease studies, does not consider survival time in assessment of the dependent covariates and does not account for the censoring which usually occurs in such studies.
  • (17) Decreased synthesis rather than increased utilization accounted for the nucleoside effect.
  • (18) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
  • (19) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
  • (20) The term acute allergic colitis seems to be more suitable taking into account the distribution, the cause and the development of this disease.

Testimony


Definition:

  • (n.) A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.
  • (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.
  • (n.) Open attestation; profession.
  • (n.) Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
  • (n.) The two tables of the law.
  • (n.) Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre/ Scriptures.
  • (v. t.) To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
  • (2) Ben Bernanke's testimony to the Senate: from here onwards .
  • (3) Psychiatric testimony to ultimate questions at law is limited by the inherent contextual variables of psychiatric clinical and experimental knowledge and practice.
  • (4) The west's recent military adventures bear testimony to that.
  • (5) This judgement is particularly significant for the UK as it was the testimony of two leading experts, Professor Nicholas J. Wald and Sir Richard Doll, whose evidence helped convince the Judge about the harmful health effects of passive smoke.
  • (6) Defence lawyers contended that Saiful's testimony about the alleged sodomy, at a Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008, was riddled with inconsistencies and the DNA evidence mishandled by investigators.
  • (7) The police spokesman said the evidence considered included a testimony from a member of the public who witnessed the incident, footage supplied by the media, an interview with the man who was Tasered, footage from the video cameras worn by the attending officers and a statement from a safety trainer.
  • (8) Releasing Eric Garner grand jury papers 'would help restore public trust' Read more A petition from the the New York Civil Liberties Union and others had called for the release of the grand jury transcripts, including testimony by Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer involved in the incident.
  • (9) Pimps and clients are rarely punished and when prosecutors do manage to build a case against them, survivors often change their testimonies and the cases are thrown out, says Francisco Carlos Pereira de Andrade, a criminal prosecutor who specialises in child exploitation.
  • (10) At the end of the hearing Trump pointed to the testimony of James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, claiming that Clapper had “reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion with Russia and Trump”.
  • (11) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
  • (12) After briefly discussing the limitations of expert testimony and the adversarial demands of the judicial system, the author concludes that the insanity defense should be retained but altered, and that psychiatrists should bear the burdens of advocating for the mentally ill.
  • (13) His videos make for compelling first-person testimony.
  • (14) Vance took a similar line in his own testimony, saying that hacking individual phones was far different from large-scale cybercrimes such as hacking into the Office of Personnel Management.
  • (15) Hinton’s defense lawyer wrongly thought he had only $1,000 to hire a ballistics expert to try to rebut the prosecution testimony about the bullets.
  • (16) He dissects Rowland’s testimony with the abstracted interest of a child operating on a fly with a pair of tweezers.
  • (17) And it is a perfect testimony to the fact that a highly evolved economic area such as ours can produce equally high environmental standards.” The EEA noted a “marked improvement” over recent decades in measurements of two bacteria, E coli and intestinal enterococci, which indicate faecal contamination of swimming waters by sewage and animals.
  • (18) A general practitioner practising from 1940 onwards on the Gruyère region describes visually his former task: permanence on call, daily journeys of 80 km for house calls, often on skis or by sleigh, surgery under most primitive conditions, serious decisions taken lonely, diphtheria-epidemics, frequent tuberculosis, penicillin as a major break-through, picturesque human encounters...A lively testimony of times gone by.
  • (19) The individual features of these 18 cases are noted and distinguished, and the conclusions reached in the expert testimony set out.
  • (20) Andrews has been on the witness stand for two days, often giving tearful testimony about the fear and suffering she has gone through as a result of the stalking and the videos.