Notion vs Lesson - What's the difference?
notion | lesson |
Mental]] apprehension of whatever may be known, [[think, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
* (Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
* (George Cheyne) (1671-1743)
* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
* (Alexander Hamilton) (ca.1756-1804)
A sentiment; an opinion.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* (John Henry Newman) (1801-1890)
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke
(label) Sense; mind. Shakespeare.
(label) An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.
Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, such as a button or zipper.
(label) Inclination; intention; disposition.
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)
*
, 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
As nouns the difference between notion and lesson
is that notion is mental]] apprehension of whatever may be known, [[think|thought, or imagined; idea, concept while 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.notion
Noun
(en noun)- What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.
- Few agree in their notions about these words.
- That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc.
- Notion , again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result of that act.
- The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves.
- A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity.
George Goodchild
See also
* concept * conception * meaningExternal links
* * ----lesson
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.