Academic vs Research - What's the difference?
academic | research |
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.
(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).
(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.
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, title= A member of the Academy; an academician.
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(pluralonly) Academic dress; academicals.
(pluralonly) Academic studies.
(uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.
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, title=Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits
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(countable) A particular instance or piece of research.
* Macaulay
* 1747 , The Scots magazine (volume 9, page 567)
To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
To make an extensive investigation into.
To search again.
As nouns the difference between academic and research
is that academic is a follower of Plato, a Platonist while research is diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.As an adjective academic
is belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy.As a verb research is
to search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.academic
English
Alternative forms
* academick (obsolete) * acad, (abbreviation) * AcademicAdjective
(en adjective)- I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
Derived terms
* academic advantage * academic disadvantage * academic institution * academic question * academic degree * academic disciplineNoun
(en noun)The multiplexed metropolis, passage=Academics
- Carneades the academick , when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].
Derived terms
See also
* scientificReferences
External links
* * ----research
English
(wikipedia research)Noun
citation, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research , the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
- The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.
- The first step I took in this so necessary a research , was to examine the motives, the justice, the necessity and expediency of the revolution
