Mentor vs Controller - What's the difference?
mentor | controller |
English eponyms
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One who controls something.
* (rfdate) (Dryden)
(business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
(computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
(nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
As nouns the difference between mentor and controller
is that mentor is a wise and trusted counselor or teacher while controller is one who controls something.As a verb mentor
is to act as someone's mentor.As a proper noun Mentor
is odysseus's trusted counselor. He was assigned the responsibility to raise Odysseus's son Telemachus, while Odysseus was away fighting in Troy.mentor
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See also
* coach * nestor * sponsor *Article on the etymology and history of the word “mentor” on languagehat.com
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controller
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Noun
(en noun)- The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
