What's the difference between admittance and confession?

Admittance


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of admitting.
  • (n.) Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
  • (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument.
  • (n.) Admissibility.
  • (n.) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
  • (2) The dominating reason for admittance is heart disease.
  • (3) None of the patients was suspected of having abdominal typhus at the time of admittance.
  • (4) Measurements were made of the time course and amplitude of the change in real part of admittance, DeltaG, of a suspension of frog rod outer segments, following a flash of light bleaching about 1% of the rhodopsin content of the rods.
  • (5) After emergency admittance to hospital the ECG showed 3 degrees A-V block, requiring temporary pacemaker insertion.
  • (6) In our environment, there is a high percentage of admittances despite the fact that a positive outcome is reached in virtually all cases: only 1 exitus out of 103 cases.
  • (7) On admittance to the hospital, hyperpigmentation was also present.
  • (8) Six patients were in coma on admittance, 1 was confused, and 4 were conscious.
  • (9) They showed remarkable differences concerning the diagnosis of admittance, age and other factors related to the risk of infection.
  • (10) The blood samples were taken upon the patients admittance to the hospital and repeated every 6 hours until the 24th hour after admittance.
  • (11) The short term evolution suggests that the acute process can be prolonged for more than 1 month after hospital admittance, and the altered auditory function tends to persist over the mid term.
  • (12) Within this limit the spectral intensities of current and voltage noise are given by the frequency-dependent admittance, which in turn is closely linked to the relaxation-time spectrum of the transport system.
  • (13) Most of the respondents who do not gain admittance to medical school on reapplications still aspire to doctoral-level degrees, but only half remain in the health area.
  • (14) Patients were clinically examined before admittance to the study and at 1, 2, 3 and 6 months after treatment initiation (one capsule daily for a period of 10 days per month during 3 consecutive months).
  • (15) The results obtained from this investigation don't show significant differences between the suppressors and nonsuppressors based on any of the following variables: weight loss, age, duration of the illness, weight at admittance, percentage of ideal weight and cortisol and ACTH baseline levels.
  • (16) A computer corrected for the ear-canal volume utilizing measurements made at ear-canal pressures of 0 and --350 daPa and then converted the conductance and susceptance values into admittance and impedance units.
  • (17) The present study was undertaken for the purpose of studying the clinical validity of static admittance values in 42 confirmed otosclerotic ears.
  • (18) Observation of the conductance component of admittance consistently required higher intensity levels to elicit the acoustic reflex.
  • (19) An admittance function was defined as the percentage of the rays reaching the rhabdom with respect to those entering the ommatidium.
  • (20) We’ll continue to make our views on these issues known to leaders in Washington and elsewhere.” As well as halting Syrian arrivals indefinitely, the president’s order suspends the admittance of all refugees to the US for 120 days.

Confession


Definition:

  • (n.) Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime.
  • (n.) Acknowledgment of belief; profession of one's faith.
  • (n.) The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution.
  • (n.) A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised; a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission to membership of a church; a confession of faith.
  • (n.) An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
  • (2) Social workers were branded as communists and detained till they confessed, often after coercive treatment.
  • (3) So it was not altogether a surprise this weekend when Elio di Rupo, the socialist charged with trying to form a viable coalition in Belgium, confessed failure to King Albert.
  • (4) RTL said Trierweiler had let it be known that she had not had a "nervous breakdown" when Hollande confessed to his alleged affair with Julie Gayet, 41, hours before Closer magazine published its "special edition" claiming Hollande had been secretly leaving the Elysée Palace for secret trysts with the actor.
  • (5) Klitschko is a self-confessed control freak; so Fury was trying to rattle him out of his rhythm.
  • (6) Yet, the long list of allegations included no statement from Kenneth Bae, other than claims that he confessed and didn't want an attorney present during his sentencing last week for what Pyongyang called hostile acts against the state.
  • (7) All of the hypotheses tested were supported, indicating that there are three primary factors associated with the reasons why criminals make confessions during interrogation.
  • (8) After her release, she confirmed that she had been pressured by threats and menaces to confess to criminal acts that she had never perpetrated.
  • (9) According to Amnesty International, the death penalty “is so far removed from any kind of legal parameters that it is almost hard to believe”, with the use of torture to extract confessions commonplace.
  • (10) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
  • (11) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
  • (12) The rightwing extremist who confessed to the mass killings in Norway boasted in court on Monday that there were two more cells from his terror network still at large, prompting an international investigation for collaborators.
  • (13) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
  • (14) The survivors of the emergency regime of detention camps were "screened" – or violently interrogated – in order to extract confessions.
  • (15) It is exciting to watch a detective interviewing a suspect, and getting that suspect to make admissions or confess to a murder.
  • (16) "All right-minded people will be angry and disturbed that a freely given confession, by someone of sound mind, taped and witnessed, can no longer be used as evidence in a court of law," he said.
  • (17) He confessed the sense of "personal strain" had been unprecedented.
  • (18) Her boyfriend, who confessed to the crime, had been helped by his mother.
  • (19) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.
  • (20) She were remorseful all right,” pouted Mercedes, a woman who only has to raise one on-fleek eyebrow to garner a full confession.