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Exemplar vs Rubric - What's the difference?

exemplar | rubric |

As nouns the difference between exemplar and rubric

is that exemplar is something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model while rubric is a heading in a book highlighted in red.

As adjectives the difference between exemplar and rubric

is that exemplar is exemplary while rubric is coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.

As a verb rubric is

to adorn with red; to redden.

exemplar

Etymology 1

From (etyl) exemplaire, from exemplarium, from (etyl) exemplum.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model.
  • A role model.
  • Something typical or representative of a class; see example.
  • A pattern after which others should be made; see archetype.
  • A well known usage of a scientific theory.
  • A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
  • A copy of a book or writing.
  • (Udall)
    Synonyms
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) exemplaire, and its source, (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Exemplary.
  • *, II.8:
  • *:in our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare , than yours.
  • ----

    rubric

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rubrick (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heading in a book highlighted in red.
  • A title of a category or a class.
  • :* That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.
  • *
  • An established rule or custom, a guideline.
  • * Hook
  • All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics .
  • * De Quincey
  • Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.
    (Cowper)
  • (education) A printed set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • What though my name stood rubric on the walls / Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals?
  • Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.
  • Verb

  • To adorn with red; to redden.
  • (Johnson)