Disciple vs Dependent - What's the difference?
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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)
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=4, title= (Ireland) Miserable-looking creature of a man.
(obsolete) To train, educate, teach.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
Relying upon; depending upon.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions.
(medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
Hanging down.
(US) One who relies on another for support
(grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
(grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
As nouns the difference between disciple and dependent
is that disciple is a person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others while dependent is one who relies on another for support.As a verb disciple
is to train, educate, teach.As an adjective dependent is
relying upon; depending upon.disciple
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
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.}}
Synonyms
* studentSee also
* apostleVerb
(discipl)- fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled [...].
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
Noun
(en noun)- With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all ... (In British English, this meaning is spelt dependant.)