Lector vs Lecture - What's the difference?
lector | lecture |
A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service
A public lecturer or reader at some universities
(historical, US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers, appointed by a trade union
(senseid) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture , with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
A berating or scolding.
(obsolete) The act of reading.
(senseid)(ambitransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
To preach, to berate, to scold.
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As nouns the difference between lector and lecture
is that lector is a lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service while lecture is (a spoken lesson) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.As a verb lecture is
(to teach) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.lector
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Alternative forms
* lectour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* colter ----lecture
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(wikipedia lecture)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(lectur)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
