Job vs Topic - What's the difference?
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A task.
* 1996 , (Tom Cruise) in the movie (Jerry Maguire)
An economic role for which a person is paid.
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, title= (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
* Moore
To work as a jobber.
To take the loss.
(trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
(transitive, often, with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
* Alexander Pope
To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
To hire or let in periods of service.
(l)
Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
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, title= (Internet) Discussion thread.
(obsolete) An argument or reason.
* Bishop Wilkins
(obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
As nouns the difference between job and topic
is that job is a task while topic is subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.As a verb job
is to do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.As a proper noun Job
is a book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.As an adjective topic is
topical.job
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
Cronies and capitols, passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.Derived terms
* blow job * good job * job center * job queue * poor jobVerb
(jobb)- Authors of all work, to job for the season.
- We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
- And judges job , and bishops bite the town.
- (Moxon)
- to job a carriage
- (Thackeray)
Derived terms
* blowjob * bob-a-job * boob job * desk job * good job * handjob * jobber * jobless * job of work * job-seeker * jobsware * job title * joe job * nose job * paint job * toe job * rim jobSee also
* employment * work * labourtopic
English
(wikipedia topic)Alternative forms
* topick (obsolete)Adjective
Noun
(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
- contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon
- (Wiseman)