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Community vs Organism - What's the difference?

community | organism |

As nouns the difference between community and organism

is that community is a group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law see civilization while organism is (biology) a discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.

community

English

Noun

(wikipedia community) (communities)
  • A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
  • * Hallam
  • Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .
  • * Wordsworth
  • Creatures that in communities exist.
    A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
  • A commune, or residential or religious collective.
  • The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.}}
  • (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
  • (internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
  • (obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
  • * (John Locke)
  • The original community of all things.
  • * (Washington Irving)
  • An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
  • (obsolete) common character; likeness.
  • * H. Spencer
  • The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
  • (obsolete) commonness; frequency
  • * Shakespeare
  • Eyes sick and blunted with community .

    Derived terms

    * community service * community spirit

    References

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    organism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * free-living organism * organismal * organismic