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academic | probation |

As nouns the difference between academic and probation

is that academic is while probation is a period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance.

As an adjective academic

is .

academic

English

Alternative forms

* academick (obsolete) * acad, (abbreviation) * Academic

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy.
  • Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization.
  • * academic courses -
  • * academical study -
  • Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to scientific or vocational; having no practical importance.
  • I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
  • (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
  • So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.
  • Subscribing to the architectural standards of (Vitruvius).
  • Derived terms

    * academic advantage * academic disadvantage * academic institution * academic question * academic degree * academic discipline

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually, capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
  • A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The multiplexed metropolis , passage=Academics
  • A member of the Academy; an academician.
  • *, II.4.2.ii:
  • Carneades the academick , when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].
  • (pluralonly) Academic dress; academicals.
  • (pluralonly) Academic studies.
  • Derived terms

    See also

    * scientific

    References

    probation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance
  • You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.
  • A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions
  • He got two years probation for robbery.
  • (archaic) The act of testing; proof
  • * 1661 , , page 20,
  • And I shall proceed to consider the testimony of Experience, when I shall have first advertis'd You, that if Men were as perfectly rational as 'tis to be wish'd they were, this sensible way of Probation would be as needless as 'tis wont to be imperfect.
  • * , lines 148-156,
  • And then it started like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, / The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air / The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine: and of the truth herein / This present object made probation .

    Derived terms

    * probationary * probation officer * academic probation