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Copier vs Disciple - What's the difference?

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Copier is a related term of disciple.


As nouns the difference between copier and disciple

is that copier is a machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator while disciple is any of the followers of jesus christ.

copier

English

(wikipedia copier)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A machine that copies graphical material; a duplicator.
  • A person who copies documents.
  • (computing) A program or process that copies.
    • a file copier'''; a disk '''copier

    Synonyms

    (machine) * duplicator * copy machine

    Hyponyms

    (machine) (one particular kind of copier) * photocopier * xerox machine * xerography machine

    disciple

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
  • An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
  • * Holy Bible, Matthew 9:10 (King James Version)
    • And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=4, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
  • (Ireland) Miserable-looking creature of a man.

    • Related terms

    * discipleship * disciplic * discipline

    Synonyms

    * student

    See also

    * apostle

    Verb

    (discipl)
  • (obsolete) To train, educate, teach.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
    • fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled [...].

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