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Apparatus vs Institute - What's the difference?

apparatus | institute |

As nouns the difference between apparatus and institute

is that apparatus is the entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished while institute is an organization founded to promote a cause.

As a verb institute is

to begin or initiate (something); to found.

As an adjective institute is

established; organized; founded.

apparatus

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
  • A complex machine or instrument.
  • An assortment of tools or instruments.
  • A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
  • (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.

    • Usage notes

    * Is occasionally used as an invariant plural: *: Look at all of those apparatus .

    Synonyms

    * (entirety of means) setup, mechanism, dynamic * (complex machine) instrument, machinery, device * (assortment of tools) tools, gear, equipment * (political patronage organization) machine

    Related terms

    * apparat

    institute

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) institut, from (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia institute) (en noun)
  • An organization founded to promote a cause
    • I work in a medical research institute .
  • An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
  • The building housing such an institution
  • (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
  • * Milton
    • water sanctified by Christ's institute
  • (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
  • * Burke
    • They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.
  • * Dryden
    • to make the Stoics' institutes thy own
  • (legal, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
    • (Tomlins)
    Derived terms
    * educational institute * research institute * academic institute

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (institut)
  • To begin or initiate (something); to found.
    • He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare
    • And haply institute / A course of learning and ingenious studies.
  • * 1776 , (Thomas Jefferson), (Declaration of Independence) :
    • 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.
  • (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
    • If children were early instituted , knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
  • To nominate; to appoint.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
    • We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.
  • (ecclesiastical, legal) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
    • (Blackstone)

    Related terms

    * institution * institutional

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Established; organized; founded.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
    • They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute , very few to suffice.

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