Guideline vs Precept - What's the difference?
guideline | precept | Related terms |
A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.
A plan or explanation to guide one in setting standards or determining a course of action.
A light line, used in lettering, to help align the text.
A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
* 2006 : ,
** I need hardly point out that Pinker doesn't really believe anything of what he writes, at least if example is stronger evidence of belief than precept .
* 1891 :
** He found a people in the extreme of barbarism living in caves, feeding upon the bloody flesh of animals they killed in hunting; he taught them many things, so that by his example, and for generations after he left them by his precepts , they advanced to high civilization.
(legal) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
Guideline is a related term of precept.
As nouns the difference between guideline and precept
is that guideline is a non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour while precept is a rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.As a verb precept is
(obsolete) to teach by precepts.guideline
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Noun
(en noun)- He considered the Ten Commandments more a guideline than a requirement.
Synonyms
* (non-specific rule) rule of thumb * (plan or explanation) rule of thumbprecept
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(wikipedia precept)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)The Gift of Language