Entity vs Statue - What's the difference?
entity | statue |
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
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An existent something that has the properties of being real, and having a real existence.
(computing) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
The state or quality of being or existence.
* Quotation: The policy of the government of the United States is to seek . . . to preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity --
A three-dimensional work of art, usually representing a person or animal, usually created by sculpting, carving, molding, or casting.
* Shakespeare
(dated) A portrait.
To form a statue of; to make into a statue.
* Feltham
As a noun entity
is that which has a distinct existence as an individual unit often used for organisations which have no physical form.As a verb statue is
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English
(wikipedia entity)Noun
(entities)- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities .
- The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* entitative * entity-relationship model * geopolitical entity * legal entity * nonentitystatue
English
Noun
(en noun)- I will raise her statue in pure gold.
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Hypernyms
* image, sculpture, simulacrumHyponyms
* bust, figurineDerived terms
* statued * statuelike * statuesqueVerb
(statu)- The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth.
