Clinic vs Climate - What's the difference?
clinic | climate |
A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
A group practice of several physicians.
A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
(wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
(obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
(obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
(medicine, obsolete) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
(Webster 1913)
(obsolete) An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
(obsolete) A region of the Earth.
The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
(figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral etc. situation.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial. }}
(poetic, obsolete) To dwell.
* 1610 , , V. i. 169:
In obsolete terms the difference between clinic and climate
is that clinic is one who receives baptism on a sickbed while climate is a region of the Earth.As nouns the difference between clinic and climate
is that clinic is a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients while climate is an area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.As a verb climate is
to dwell.clinic
English
(wikipedia clinic)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- (Hook)
Derived terms
* abortion clinic * clinical * clinically * clinician * dental clinicExternal links
* * *climate
English
Noun
(en noun)- Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate .
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Derived terms
* acclimate * acclimatise, acclimatize * climate change * political climateVerb
(climat)- The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!