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Donour vs. Donor — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Donour and Donor

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Donour

Obsolete form of donor

Donor

A donor in general is a person, organization or government which donates something voluntarily. The term is usually used to represent a form of pure altruism, but is sometimes used when the payment for a service is recognized by all parties as representing less than the value of the donation and that the motivation is altruistic.

Donor

A person who donates something, especially money to charity
An anonymous donor has given £25
Loans from rich donor countries

Donor

One that contributes something, such as money, to a cause or fund.

Donor

(Medicine) An individual from whom blood, tissue, or an organ is taken for transfusion, implantation, or transplant.
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Donor

(Chemistry) An atom, molecule, or ion that provides a part to combine with an acceptor, especially an atom that provides two electrons to form a bond with another atom.

Donor

(Electronics) An element introduced into a semiconductor with a negative valence greater than that of the pure semiconductor.

Donor

(Medicine) Used for transfusion, implantation, or transplant
A donor organ.

Donor

One who makes a donation.
The charity raised $2,000 from various donors.
The hospital is seeking an organ donor.

Donor

(chemistry) A group or molecule that donates either a radical, electrons or a moiety in a chemical reaction. Compare acceptor.
A carbonyl donor molecule
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Donor

One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor. Inverse of recipient.

Donor

One who grants an estate; in later use, one who confers a power; - the opposite of donee.
Touching, the parties unto deeds and charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees.

Donor

Person who makes a gift of property

Donor

(medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)

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