The difference between Account and Excuse

When used as nouns, account means a registry of pecuniary transactions, whereas excuse means explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment.

When used as verbs, account means to present an account of, whereas excuse means to forgive.

check bellow for the other definitions of Account and Excuse

  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. Excuse as a verb (transitive):

    To forgive; to pardon.

    Examples:

    "I excused him his transgressions."

  2. Excuse as a verb (transitive):

    To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.

    Examples:

    "May I be excused from the table?"

    "I excused myself from the proceedings to think over what I'd heard."

  3. Excuse as a verb (transitive):

    To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement.

    Examples:

    "You know he shouldn't have done it, so don't try to excuse his behavior!"

  4. Excuse as a verb:

    To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.

  1. Excuse as a noun (countable, uncountable):

    Explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.

    Examples:

    "Tell me why you were late – and I don't want to hear any excuses!"

  2. Excuse as a noun (legal):

    A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.

  3. Excuse as a noun (with preceding negative adjective, especially {{m, sorry):

    , or }} An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.

    Examples:

    "That thing is a poor excuse for a gingerbread man. Hasn't anyone taught you how to bake?"

    "He's a sorry excuse of a doctor."

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