What's the difference between docket and ticket?

Docket


Definition:

  • (n.) A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
  • (n.) A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label.
  • (n.) An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.
  • (n.) A list or calendar of causes ready for hearing or trial, prepared for the use of courts by the clerks.
  • (n.) A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.
  • (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers.
  • (v. t.) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.
  • (v. t.) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.
  • (v. t.) To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparison with the weekly docket system, chosen as a reference method, validated the self-questionnaire.
  • (2) Although the case against Carl was initially removed from the court docket, it was reinstated because forensic evidence and reports from the accident scene became available, the prosecution said.
  • (3) If they do make it, they’ll get sent back.” Kathryn Mattingly, a spokeswoman for the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), said that since the end of July, 39 immigration courts across the country, including in Hawaii, California, Texas, Omaha, Cleveland and New York, have juvenile dockets with cases pending.
  • (4) A hearing this week on the 17th floor of an immigration court in downtown LA highlighted one major issue: three of the five juveniles on the docket were not present.
  • (5) We hope that a trial date is also discussed but don’t yet know how the court’s docket is looking.” Peterson is hoping for a quick trial date or he will likely miss the rest of the season.
  • (6) "None of the objections, whether filed on the objections docket or elsewhere, have shown the Settlement to be anything other than fair, reasonable and adequate," he wrote.
  • (7) That’s despite the AFP having investigated former speaker Peter Slipper in 2012 over allegations he misused taxi dockets.
  • (8) This longitudinal database was compiled following a systematic search of all available docket books from the superior courts and mental health records from the state hospitals in Connecticut beginning in January 1970.
  • (9) Earlier this year, the Justice Department announced plans to move cases of unaccompanied immigrant children to the top of the docket.
  • (10) One man in a yellow football shirt held a crime docket marked "GBH" and "beer bottle".
  • (11) They are called “rocket dockets”, and ricochet through immigration courts in what critics say is a blur of confusion, anxiety and frustration.
  • (12) As soon as Friday, the supreme court may add Miller’s lawsuit to its docket.
  • (13) Most often, county court dockets were hand searched to identify those pleading insanity, although numerous other methodologies were used.
  • (14) The case was settled out of court and dismissed from the docket in April 2011, and the details were sealed.
  • (15) "They've handed over reams and reams of documents – emails, payment dockets, expenses forms, payslips, you name it.
  • (16) One man is wearing a yellow football shirt and jeans and holding a docket for a case of GBH involving a beer bottle.
  • (17) The manufacturers do print warnings on their quotations and their delivery dockets, but the serious nature of some cement burns is not stressed.
  • (18) Research data were obtained from court dockets filed with Wisconsin's Patients Compensation Panel and from 281 attorneys who provided the age for 431 claimants.
  • (19) While the government is expected to appeal the decision later on Friday, Kessler ordered that the public versions of the tapes to be released obscure “all faces other than Mr Dhiab’s, voices, names, etc.” The unclassified version of the videos “may then be entered on the public docket,” Kessler wrote.
  • (20) So when News Corporation volunteered all these documents from the Sun – these payslips, dockets, you name it – I think they were kind of hoping they'd find evidence of a similar scandal at the Sun.

Ticket


Definition:

  • (v.) A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
  • (v.) A little note or notice.
  • (v.) A tradesman's bill or account.
  • (v.) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
  • (v.) A label to show the character or price of goods.
  • (v.) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
  • (v.) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot.
  • (v. t.) To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.
  • (2) "It's a ticket that is going to win in order to bring out an agenda of transformation.
  • (3) So if you are, for example, going on maternity leave in 17 weeks' time you can ask the booking office for a 17-week season ticket, which will be cheaper than buying a series of monthlies and weeklies.
  • (4) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
  • (5) Manchester United Would you vote in favour of a £30 cap on away tickets?
  • (6) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
  • (7) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
  • (8) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
  • (9) Like Donald Trump’s campaign today, the Know Nothings (who watered down their name to the “American Party” in 1856 when Fillmore ran for president on their ticket) appealed to those who saw native-born Americans losing out to immigrants.
  • (10) During Nicolas Sarkozy's unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign she was mocked for not knowing the price of an underground train ticket (she said €4 instead of €1.70).
  • (11) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
  • (12) It went ahead with the hospitality on Monday and Tuesday – using around 96 tickets – but has called off all further formal entertainment.
  • (13) In 2004, fewer than 100,000 tickets were sold for arena standup gigs.
  • (14) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
  • (15) But homewares, which Street calls the store chain's "point of fame", are well down as a result of fewer people moving house and therefore not popping in to John Lewis to order big-ticket items such as carpets, curtains and furniture.
  • (16) Last week, it emerged that the firm was sending out tickets to members of the public that were originally intended for Games sponsors.
  • (17) Yet here comes Bloomberg — a former Democrat turned Republican turned independent who many thought might run for president himself on a third-party ticket — throwing his support behind Obama , citing climate as the proximate reason for his hop off the fence: Our climate is changing.
  • (18) And I decided that the best way for me to come to America was to become a bodybuilding champion, because I knew that was the ticket the instant that I saw a magazine cover of my idol, Reg Park.
  • (19) Liverpool’s Ian Ayre urges fans to ‘look at facts’ over ticket prices Read more The FSF chief executive, Kevin Miles, who has been leading its Twenty’s Plenty campaign for a £20 cap, said: “We are incredibly disappointed to learn that a proposed cap on away ticket prices was voted down by the Premier League clubs yesterday in a secret ballot.
  • (20) • San Francisco fans may struggle to get hold of a ticket to their game in Seattle on Sunday, after the Seahawks restricted sales to just six US states and two Canadian provinces .