What's the difference between addendum and supplement? The way I see it they both mean pretty much the same thing. It's something added to something else to complete it. I think supplement can be used in a wider, more general sense, while addendum is used in published works like books, more or less. In a way, it seems to me that they overlap each other. But does that mean that they are synonymous?
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abate is related to bate etymologically.
Bate
Origin
late Middle English: from Old French batre 'to beat' (see also batter1).
Abate
Origin
Middle English (in the legal sense): from Old French abatre 'to fell', from a- (from Latin ad 'to, at') + batre 'to beat' (from Latin battere, battuere 'to beat').
The word picture for bate is a hawk beating its wings against the air to fly. This word picture extends metaphorically to its noun definition: "foul mood".
Bate
VERB
Falconry (Of a hawk) beat the wings in agitation and flutter off the perch:
the hawks bated and immediately the breeze got in their feathers
NOUN
British informal (dated) An angry mood:
he got into a stinking bate
"Bate" obtains the meaning of "reducing the intensity of a force" as Shakespeare used it in Merchant of Venice. In each of the uses below, bate can reflect the meaning "subdue", although in some of them it could also reflect the original word picture of "beat" or "flutter".
"With bated breath and whispering humbleness,"
"His tedious measures with the unbated fire"
"These griefs and losses have so bated me,"
"And bid the main flood bate his usual height;"
By adding the prefix "a" (a phonetic variant of "ad") to the base of bate we get the picture of beating "at" something or someone.
Abate
VERB
Make (something) less intense:
nothing abated his crusading zeal
Again, abate obtains the meaning of "reducing the intensity of a harmful force" from the outcome of beating that harmful force back. In fact, "subdue" is the primary connotation of abate.
This is the clear meaning in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, when BASSANIO says,
"You would abate the strength of your displeasure."
So in the end, the common etymology creates common meaning across the board, although bate is rarely used now, except for the phrase "bated breath."
I just think that acceptor is an older form of accepter. Though there are roughly parallel entries for them in the OED. Acceptor is certainly still in current use, but modern people I suggest would be inclined to use the accepter spelling.
So far as such instruments as Bills of Exchange are concerned, both are in use.
2004 Racing Post 7 May 8/2 A full list of acceptors will be issued tomorrow after the extended deadline, but one name confirmed yesterday was the Godolphin filly Punctilious.
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An addendum is added to the end of a document to:
The material in an addendum usually threads back directly to specific parts of the main text.
A supplement is added to the end of a document to:
The material in a supplement is a little more "stand-alone" and enhances the reader's understanding. They are related, but I don't think they are synonymous.