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Lesson vs Breaktime - What's the difference?

lesson | breaktime |

As nouns the difference between lesson and breaktime

is that lesson is a section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided while breaktime is (us) a break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.

As a verb lesson

is to give a lesson to; to teach.

lesson

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
  • A learning task assigned to a student; homework.
  • Something learned or to be learned.
  • Something that serves as a warning or encouragement.
  • A section of the Bible or other religious text read as part of a divine service.
  • A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning.
  • * Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
    • She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;
  • (music) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (religious reading) lection

    Derived terms

    * object lesson * private lessons

    Related terms

    * lectern * lection * lecture

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give a lesson to; to teach.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
    • her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee / Made her companion, and her lessoned / In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
  • * Byron
    • To rest the weary, and to soothe the sad, / Doth lesson happier men, and shame at least the bad.

    See also

    * (wikipedia "lesson") *

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    breaktime

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A break for a worker or workers that splits a period of work.
  • * 2007 , National Labor Relations Board (U.S.) (editor), Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board , Volume 346: November 28, 2005—May 8, 2006, page 39,
    • Supervisor Laws asserts that when the incident occurred it was not the breaktime of either Tingler or Parnell. (4:760,789.)
  • (UK) A break for schoolchildren between lessons.
  • * 1992 , David Freer, Towards Open Schools: Possibilities and Realities for Non-Racial Education in South Africa , page 130,
    • It tends to evaluate the liking for, and the acceptance of, the pupils in their class as peers, rather than asking children to specifically select their friends, breaktime and home companions.
  • * 2006 , Brigette Bishop, Promoting Friendships in the Playground: A Peer Befriending Programme for Primary Schools , page 4,
    • The significance of breaktimes as a mechanism for children to develop social competence is highlighted in much of Peter Blatchford's work.
  • * 2010 , Karen Littleton, Clare Wood, Judith Kleine Staarman, International Handbook of Psychology in Education , page 231,
    • Designed by architects working for Norman Foster, it had no playground and no morning breaktime .

    Synonyms

    * (break during school) lunchtime (hyponym), playtime, recess