Downplay vs Lesson - What's the difference?
downplay | lesson |
To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
Something learned or to be learned.
Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
(music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.
To give a lesson to; to teach.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
* Byron
As verbs the difference between downplay and lesson
is that downplay is to de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential while lesson is to give a lesson to; to teach.As a noun lesson is
a section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.downplay
English
Alternative forms
* play downVerb
(en verb)- He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.
Usage notes
* The synonymous alternative form (play down) is slightly more formal, or slightly less informal.Anagrams
*lesson
English
Noun
(en noun)- She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
Synonyms
* (l) * (religious reading) lectionDerived terms
* object lesson * private lessonsVerb
(en verb)- her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee / Made her companion, and her lessoned / In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
- To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, / Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.