Congress vs. Convention
Congressnoun
(archaic) A coming together of two or more people; a meeting.
Congressnoun
A formal gathering or assembly; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
Congressnoun
(often capitalized: Congress) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
Congressnoun
An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
Congressnoun
Coitus; sexual intercourse.
Congressverb
(intransitive) To assemble together.
Congressverb
To meet in a congress.
Congressnoun
A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.
Congressnoun
A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; - said of things.
Congressnoun
The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.
Congressnoun
A gathering or assembly; a conference.
Congressnoun
A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.
Congressnoun
The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.
Congressnoun
The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.
Congressnoun
the legislature of the United States government
Congressnoun
a meeting of elected or appointed representatives
Congressnoun
a national legislative assembly
Congressnoun
the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur
Congress
Congresses are formal meetings of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of adversaries) during battle, from the Latin congressus.
Conventionnoun
A meeting or gathering.
Conventionnoun
A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
Conventionnoun
The convening of a formal meeting.
Conventionnoun
A formal agreement, contract or pact.
Conventionnoun
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
Conventionnoun
A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
Conventionnoun
The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
Conventionnoun
General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
Conventionnoun
A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, - civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.
Conventionnoun
An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, - as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.
Conventionnoun
An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.
Conventionnoun
a large formal assembly;
Conventionnoun
something regarded as a normative example;
Conventionnoun
(diplomacy) an international agreement
Conventionnoun
orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
Conventionnoun
the act of convening
