The difference between Account and Bill

When used as nouns, account means a registry of pecuniary transactions, whereas bill means any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an anglo-saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.

When used as verbs, account means to present an account of, whereas bill means to dig, chop, etc., with a bill.


check bellow for the other definitions of Account and Bill

  1. Account as a noun (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.

  2. Account as a noun (banking):

    A sum of money deposited at a bank and subject to withdrawal.

    Examples:

    "to keep one's account at the bank."

  3. Account as a noun:

    A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.

    Examples:

    "No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena."

  4. Account as a noun:

    A reason, grounds, consideration, motive.

    Examples:

    "on no account"

    "on every account"

    "on all accounts"

  5. Account as a noun (business):

    A business relationship involving the exchange of money and credit.

  6. Account as a noun:

    A record of events; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description.

    Examples:

    "An account of a battle."

  7. Account as a noun:

    An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

  8. Account as a noun:

    Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

  9. Account as a noun:

    An authorization to use a service.

    Examples:

    "I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project."

  10. Account as a noun (archaic):

    A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

  11. Account as a noun:

    Profit; advantage.

  1. Account as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To provide explanation. To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. To estimate, consider (something to be as described). To consider . To give a satisfactory evaluation financial transactions, money received etc. To give a satisfactory evaluation (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer . To give a satisfactory reason ; to explain. To establish the location someone. To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ ).

    Examples:

    "An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received."

    "We must account for the use of our opportunities."

    "Idleness accounts for poverty."

    "After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for."

  2. Account as a verb (transitive, now, _, rare):

    To count. To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). To count (up), enumerate. To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

  1. Bill as a noun:

    Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.

  2. Bill as a noun:

    A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.

  3. Bill as a noun:

    Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Strype"

  4. Bill as a noun:

    A pickaxe, or mattock.

  5. Bill as a noun (nautical):

    The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).

  1. Bill as a verb (transitive):

    To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.

  1. Bill as a noun:

    The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.

  2. Bill as a noun:

    A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.

  3. Bill as a noun:

    Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.

  1. Bill as a verb (obsolete):

    To peck.

  2. Bill as a verb:

    To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.

  1. Bill as a noun:

    A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)

  2. Bill as a noun:

    A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)

  3. Bill as a noun:

    A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.

  4. Bill as a noun (obsolete, legal):

    A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.

  5. Bill as a noun (US):

    A piece of paper money; a banknote.

  6. Bill as a noun:

    A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.

  7. Bill as a noun:

    A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods

    Examples:

    "synonyms: placard poster handbill"

  8. Bill as a noun:

    A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. A bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.

  9. Bill as a noun:

    A set of items presented together.

  1. Bill as a verb (transitive):

    To advertise by a bill or public notice.

  2. Bill as a verb (transitive):

    To charge; to send a bill to.

  1. Bill as a noun:

    The bell, or boom, of the bittern.