Institute vs Academic - What's the difference?
institute | academic |
An organization founded to promote a cause
An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
The building housing such an institution
(obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
* Milton
(obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
* Burke
* Dryden
(legal, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
To begin or initiate (something); to found.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* 1776 , (Thomas Jefferson), (Declaration of Independence) :
(obsolete) To train, instruct.
*, II.27:
*:Publius was the first that ever instituted the Souldier to manage his armes by dexteritie and skil, and joyned art unto vertue, not for the use of private contentions, but for the wars and Roman peoples quarrels.
* (rfdate) Dr. H. More
To nominate; to appoint.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
(ecclesiastical, legal) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
(obsolete) Established; organized; founded.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the academic sect or philosophy.
Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; also a scholarly society or organization.
* academic courses -
* academical study -
Theoretical or speculative; abstract; scholarly, literary or classical, in distinction to scientific or vocational; having no practical importance.
(art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness.
Subscribing to the architectural standards of (Vitruvius).
(usually, capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A member of the Academy; an academician.
*, II.4.2.ii:
(pluralonly) Academic dress; academicals.
(pluralonly) Academic studies.
As nouns the difference between institute and academic
is that institute is while academic is .As an adjective academic is
.institute
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) institut, from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia institute) (en noun)- I work in a medical research institute .
- water sanctified by Christ's institute
- They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.
- to make the Stoics' institutes thy own
- (Tomlins)
Derived terms
* educational institute * research institute * academic instituteEtymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Verb
(institut)- He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
- And haply institute / A course of learning and ingenious studies.
- Whenever any from of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government.
- If children were early instituted , knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
- We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.
- (Blackstone)
Adjective
(-)- They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute , very few to suffice.
External links
* * * ----academic
English
Alternative forms
* academick (obsolete) * acad, (abbreviation) * AcademicAdjective
(en adjective)- I have always had an academic interest in hacking.
Derived terms
* academic advantage * academic disadvantage * academic institution * academic question * academic degree * academic disciplineNoun
(en noun)The multiplexed metropolis, passage=Academics
- Carneades the academick , when he was to write against Zeno the stoick, purged himself with hellebor first […].