Martial vs Partial - What's the difference?
martial | partial |
Of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike.
* Dryden
Relating to or connected with the armed forces or the profession of arms or military life.
(comparable) Characteristic of or befitting a warrior; having a military bearing; soldierly, soldierlike, warriorlike.
(medicine, chemistry, obsolete) Relating to, or containing, iron; chalybeate.
Existing as a part or portion; incomplete.
(computer science) Describing a property that holds only when an algorithm terminates.
Biased in favor of a person, side, or point of view, especially when dealing with a competition or dispute.
* Alexander Pope
Having a predilection for something.
* Sir Walter Scott
(mathematics) A partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables.
(music) An overtone or harmonic.
(dentistry) dentures that replace only some of the natural teeth
As adjectives the difference between martial and partial
is that martial is of, relating to, or suggestive of war; warlike while partial is existing as a part or portion; incomplete.As a proper noun Martial
is a given name derived from Latin narrowly applied to certain historic persons (but some of its foreign cognates are modern given names).As a noun partial is
a partial derivative: a derivative with respect to one independent variable of a function in multiple variables.martial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But peaceful kings, o'er martial people set, / Each other's poise and counterbalance are.
- martial preparations
- martial flowers: a reddish crystalline salt of iron
Derived terms
* court martial * martial art * martialism * martialness * martialist * martial law * martiallySee also
* MarsAnagrams
* ----partial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- So far, I have only pieced together a partial account of the incident.
- It's easy to prove partial correctness, but it's not obvious that it is also totally correct.
- The referee is blatantly partial !
- a partial parent
- not partial to an ostentatious display