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 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
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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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