AMENDMENT

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of amending or correcting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("amendment" is a kind of...):

correction; rectification (the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right)

Derivation:

amend (make amendments to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("amendment" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Instance hyponyms:

First Amendment (an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression; includes freedom of assembly and freedom of the press and freedom of religion and freedom of speech)

Fifth Amendment (an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that imposes restrictions on the government's prosecution of persons accused of crimes; mandates due process of law and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy; requires just compensation if private property is taken for public use)

Fourteenth Amendment (an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government)

Eighteenth Amendment (an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; repealed in 1932)

Nineteenth Amendment (an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex)

Derivation:

amend (make amendments to)

Credits

Context examples:

Amendments are the mechanism of changes introduction, further development and improvement of previously submitted or approved clinical study protocols and proposals.

(Amendment, NCI Thesaurus)

“Four o'clock!—depend upon it he will be here by three,” was Mr. Weston's quick amendment; and so ended a most satisfactory meeting.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Indicates the person or authoritative body who made an amendment.

(Amended By, NCI Thesaurus)

IRB responsibility include but not limited to the reviewing, approving, and providing continuing review of trial protocol and amendments and of the methods and material(s) to be used in obtaining and documenting informed consent of the trial.

(Institutional Review Board, NCI Thesaurus)

The information contained in the DMF may be used to support an Investigational New Drug Application (IND), a New Drug Application (NDA), an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA), another DMF, an Export Application, or amendments and supplements to any of these.

(Drug Master File, Food and Drug Administration)

This was felt to be a considerable amendment; and though they all met at the Great House at rather an early breakfast hour, and set off very punctually, it was so much past noon before the two carriages, Mr Musgrove's coach containing the four ladies, and Charles's curricle, in which he drove Captain Wentworth, were descending the long hill into Lyme, and entering upon the still steeper street of the town itself, that it was very evident they would not have more than time for looking about them, before the light and warmth of the day were gone.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

THE CHAIRMAN: 'Yes, sir, if there must be an amendment.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The next day produced little or no alteration in the state of the patient; she certainly was not better, and, except that there was no amendment, did not appear worse.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

One great excellency in this tribe, is their skill at prognostics, wherein they seldom fail; their predictions in real diseases, when they rise to any degree of malignity, generally portending death, which is always in their power, when recovery is not: and therefore, upon any unexpected signs of amendment, after they have pronounced their sentence, rather than be accused as false prophets, they know how to approve their sagacity to the world, by a seasonable dose.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment.