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Lesson vs Vulpine - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between lesson and vulpine

is that lesson is a section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided while vulpine is any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf .

As a verb lesson

is to give a lesson to; to teach.

As an adjective vulpine is

pertaining to a fox.

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

    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") *

    vulpine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a fox.
  • * 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia :
  • She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea-table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth.
  • Having the characteristics of a fox, foxlike; cunning.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf .
  • * 1980 , Michael Wilson Fox, The Soul of the Wolf , unnumbered page,
  • The family Canidae consists of two main subgroups, the vulpines (foxes) and the canines (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs), and some intermediate “fox-dog” forms from South America.
  • A person considered vulpine (cunning); a fox.
  • See also

    * canine * lupine * Vulpini (tribe within subfamily Caninae) ----