What is the difference between installment and episode?
installment | episode | Synonyms |
The act of installing; installation.
(obsolete) The seat in which one is placed.
A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal namely regular, e.g. mensual) being often definitely stipulated.
a part of a broadcast or published serial.
anything that is performed in parts, spread in time
An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
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Episode is a synonym of installment.
As nouns the difference between installment and episode
is that installment is the act of installing; installation while episode is an incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.installment
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Alternative forms
* instalment (Commonwealth)Etymology 1
From install, itself from (etyl) installer, from installare, from (etyl) in- + ML stallum 'stall' (from Germanic stal, see below)Noun
(en noun)- Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment , to do impartial justice by law. Milton.
- The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment , coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. Shakespeare.
Synonyms
* investiture, investment * installationEtymology 2
A 1732 alteration of (estallment), from (etyl) : The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
For this sense in the UK, the OED permits only the spelling instalment . Commonwealth usage varies.Synonyms
* (portion of a debt) * (part of a broadcast or published serial) episode, partReferences
* * * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=installment+&searchmode=none]episode
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(wikipedia episode)Noun
(en noun)The Norwich Victims, passage=The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode , which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.}}
TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992), work=The Onion AV Club , passage=We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.}}