Directive vs Reprimand - What's the difference?
directive | reprimand |
An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
(European Union law) A form of legislative act addressed to the Member States. The directive binds the Member State to reach certain objectives in their national legislation.
The directive case.
that directs
serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
(grammar) relating to the directive case
A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
* Macaulay
To reprove in a formal or official way.
* 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
As nouns the difference between directive and reprimand
is that directive is an instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal while reprimand is a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.As an adjective directive
is that directs.As a verb reprimand is
to reprove in a formal or official way.directive
English
(wikipedia directive)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)reprimand
English
Noun
(en noun)- Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.
Verb
(en verb)- He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope: