Rudiment vs Direction - What's the difference?
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A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
* Shakespeare
Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
* Milton
* I. Taylor
(biology) A body part that no longer has a function
(music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
The action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.
* 1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross),
Guidance, instruction.
The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
(archaic) An address.
* 1796 , , (The Monk) , Folio Society 1985, p. 218:
The path or course of a given movement, or moving body; an indication of the point toward or from which an object is moving.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
Rudiment is a related term of direction.
As nouns the difference between rudiment and direction
is that rudiment is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural) while direction is the action of directing; pointing (something) or looking towards.rudiment
English
(wikipedia rudiment)Noun
(en noun)- We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
- This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
- I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
- But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments , and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
- The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
Hypernyms
* (biology) vestigialityDerived terms
* rudimental * rudimentaryExternal links
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English
(wikipedia direction)Noun
(en noun)Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pp.284-5
- Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction .
- Her aunt Leonella was still at Cordova, and she knew not her direction .
- Just before Warwick reached Liberty Point, a young woman came down Front Street from the direction of the market-house. When their paths converged, Warwick kept on down Front Street behind her, it having been already his intention to walk in this direction .