Amendment vs. Rider — What's the Difference?

An amendment is a formal or official change made to a law, contract, constitution, or other legal document. It is based on the verb to amend, which means to change for better.

A person who is riding or who can ride a horse, bicycle, motorcycle, etc.

The act of changing for the better; improvement

A condition or proviso added to something already agreed

A correction or alteration, as in a manuscript.

A small weight positioned on the beam of a balance for fine adjustment.

The process of formally altering or adding to a document or record.

One that rides, especially one who rides horses.

A statement of such an alteration or addition.

An unrelated provision added to a legislative bill as a means of trying to get the provision adopted along with the bill or to hamper the passage of the bill.

Amendment One of the provisions in the US Constitution protecting individual rights.

An amendment or addition annexed to a document, of which it is considered to be a part. Also called allonge.

A material, such as organic matter or sand, mixed into soil to improve growing conditions.

Something, such as the top rail of a fence, that rests on or is supported by something else.

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

A mounted person.

In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.

A knight, or other mounted warrior.

(legal) Correction of an error in a writ or process.

An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.

An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.

(generally) Someone who rides a horse or (later) a bicycle, motorcycle etc.

That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.

A mounted robber; a bandit, especially in the Scottish borders.

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

(obsolete) Someone who breaks in or manages a horse; a riding master.

In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

An agent who goes out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller or travelling salesman.

Correction of an error in a writ or process.

Someone riding in a vehicle; a passenger on public transport.

The act of amending or correcting

An addition, supplement.

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

(politics) A supplementary clause added to a document after drafting, especially to a bill under the consideration of a legislature.

An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements.

An additional matter or question arising in corollary; a qualification.

A supplementary question, now especially in mathematics.

Technical senses.

(shipbuilding) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.

Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.

The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.

A small, sliding piece of thin metal on a balance, used to determine small weights.

(cartomancy) The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.

(chess) A piece, such as the rook or bishop, which moves any distance in one direction, as long as no other piece is in the way.

One who, or that which, rides.

Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.

One who breaks or manages a horse.

An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed.

A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.

A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.

Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.

An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.

The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.

A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.

A robber.

A traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)

A clause that is appended to a legislative bill

A traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)

A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it