Corollary vs Important - What's the difference?
corollary | important |
Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
Something which occurs a fortiori , as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
(mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition.
Having relevant and crucial value.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
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*:For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
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As a noun corollary
is something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.As an adjective important is
important.corollary
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Noun
(corollaries)- Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefont.
- We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary , we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.
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Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}