Criterion vs Argues - What's the difference?
criterion | argues |
A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
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(obsolete) To prove.
To shows grounds for concluding ((that)); to indicate, imply.
* 1910 , , "The Soul of Laploshka", Reginald in Russia :
To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
To have an argument, a quarrel.
To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).
As a noun criterion
is a standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.As a verb argues is
third-person singular of argue.criterion
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Alternative forms
* (nonstandard) * criteriumNoun
(criteria)Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion ” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
Usage notes
* The plural form criterions also exists, but is much less common. * The form criteria is sometimes used as a nonstandard singular form (as in a criteria'', ''this criteria , and so on), with corresponding plural form criterias. In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”.External links
* *Anagrams
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----argues
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----argue
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Verb
(argu)- To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
- He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.
- He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
- The two boys argued because of disagreement about the science project.
- He argued his point.
- He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.