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conta — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • account noun A written or spoken description of events; a report.
  • bead noun A small, often round piece of glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through it, used for jewellery or decoration.
  • bill noun A request for payment, listing what is owed for goods or services.
  • check noun An inspection to make sure something is correct, safe, or working.
  • slate noun A fine-grained gray rock that splits easily into thin flat sheets, often used for roofing.

Senses

conta is used for these senses in English:

  • account (accounting) 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. [from c. 1300]
  • account A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
  • account Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
  • bead Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster. [from 14thc.]
  • bill A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
  • bill A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
  • check (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
  • slate (countable) A record of money owed.

account — full definition

  1. noun A written or spoken description of events; a report.
  2. noun A record of money held at a bank, or of a person's access to a service.
  3. verb To give a satisfactory explanation for something (usually with "for").

bead — full definition

  1. noun A small, often round piece of glass, wood, or plastic with a hole through it, used for jewellery or decoration.
  2. noun A small drop of liquid, such as sweat or condensation.
  3. noun One of the small balls on a rosary, used for counting prayers.

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