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Cohort vs Phase - What's the difference?

cohort | phase |

As nouns the difference between cohort and phase

is that cohort is a group of people supporting the same thing or person while phase is phase.

cohort

English

(wikipedia cohort)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
  • * 1887 July, (w), '', in (Popular Science Monthly) , Volume 31,
  • Coyness and caprice have in consequence become a heritage of the sex, together with a cohort of allied weaknesses and petty deceits, that men have come to think venial, and even amiable, in women, but which they would not tolerate among themselves.
  • * 1916 , (James Joyce), , Chapter III,
  • A sin, an instant of rebellious pride of the intellect, made Lucifer and a third part of the cohort of angels fall from their glory.
  • * 1919 , (Albert Payson Terhune), , Chapter VI: Lost!,
  • A lost dog? — Yes. No succoring cohort surges to the relief. A gang of boys, perhaps, may give chase, but assuredly not in kindness.
  • (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic.
  • The 18-24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.
  • (military, history) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.
  • Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.
  • * 1900 , , 5.20,
  • But he lost the whole of his first cohort' and the centurion of the first line, a man of high rank in his own class, Asinius Dento, and the other centurions of the same ' cohort , as well as a military tribune, Sext. Lucilius, son of T. Gavius Caepio, a man of wealth, and high position.
  • * 1910 , (Arthur Conan Doyle)'', '' ,
  • But here it is as clear as words can make it: 'Bring every man of the Legions by forced marches to the help of the Empire. Leave not a cohort in Britain.' These are my orders.
  • * 1913 , '', article in ''(Catholic Encyclopedia) ,
  • The cohort in which he was centurion was probably the Cohors II Italica civium Romanorum , which a recently discovered inscription proves to have been stationed in Syria before A.D. 69.
  • An accomplice; abettor; associate.
  • He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts , as well as the source of the information.
  • Any band or body of warriors.
  • * 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost
  • With him the cohort bright / Of watchful cherubim.
  • (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
  • A colleague.
  • phase

    English

    Etymology 1

    From ; compare phantasm and see face.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
  • That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
  • Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.
  • The problem has many phases .
  • (astronomy) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets''. Illustrated in .
  • (physics) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
  • (chemistry) A component in a material system that is distinguished by chemical composition and/or physical state (solid, liquid or gas) and/or crystal structure. It is delineated from an adjoining phase by an abrupt change in one or more of those conditions.
  • (rugby union) The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=Septembe 24 , author=Ben Dirs , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=When Romania did manage to string together' some ' phases midway through the first half, England's discipline held firm, although on the whole it was a less focused display from the Six Nations champions in the second half.}}
  • (genetics) A haplotype.
  • Verb

    (phas)
  • To begin—if construed with "in"—or to discontinue—if construed with out—(doing) something over a period of time (i.e. in phases).
  • The use of the obsolete machines was gradually phased''' out as the new models were '''phased in.
  • (genetics, informal, transitive) To determine haplotypes in (data) when genotypes are known.
  • To pass into or through a solid object.
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  • Usage notes
    See notes at faze .
    Derived terms
    * phase in * phase out * unphased

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * Phase

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (obsolete) Passover
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