Lesson vs Giraffe - What's the difference?
lesson | giraffe |
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)
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, 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.
To give a lesson to; to teach.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
* Byron
A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa , of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
As a noun lesson
is a section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.As a verb lesson
is to give a lesson to; to teach.As a proper noun giraffe is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- She would give her a lesson for walking so late.
Synonyms
* (l) * (religious reading) lectionDerived terms
* object lesson * private lessonsVerb
(en verb)- her owne daughter Pleasure, to whom shee / Made her companion, and her lessoned / In all the lore of loue, and goodly womanhead.
- 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 wordsgiraffe
English
(wikipedia giraffe) (Giraffa)Noun
(en noun)- Are you having a giraffe ?!