Convention vs. Protocol
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
Protocolnoun
The minutes, or official record, of a negotiation or transaction; especially a document drawn up officially which forms the legal basis for subsequent agreements based on it.
Protocolnoun
An official record of a diplomatic meeting or negotiation; later specifically, a draft document setting out agreements to be signed into force by a subsequent formal treaty.
Protocolnoun
(international law) An amendment to an official treaty.
Protocolnoun
The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
Protocolnoun
The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
Protocolnoun
(sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment; also, the precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
Protocolnoun
The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state.
Protocolnoun
An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
Protocolnoun
(computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
Protocolnoun
(medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
Protocolverb
To make a protocol of.
Protocolverb
To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.
Protocolnoun
The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.
Protocolnoun
The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction.
Protocolnoun
A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.
Protocolverb
To make a protocol of.
Protocolverb
To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols.
Protocolnoun
(computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data
Protocolnoun
forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state
Protocolnoun
code of correct conduct;
Protocolnoun
the official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions
Protocolnoun
the accepted or established code of procedure or behaviour in any group, organization, or situation
Protocolnoun
the original draft of a diplomatic document, especially of the terms of a treaty agreed to in conference and signed by the parties
Protocolnoun
an amendment or addition to a treaty or convention
Protocolnoun
a formal or official record of scientific experimental observations
Protocolnoun
a procedure for carrying out a scientific experiment or a course of medical treatment
Protocolnoun
a set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices.
