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Novice vs Rudiment - What's the difference?

novice | rudiment |

As nouns the difference between novice and rudiment

is that novice is a beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject while rudiment is a fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).

novice

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
  • I'm only a novice at coding, and my programs frequently have bugs that more experienced programmers wouldn't make.
  • (senseid)(religion) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.
  • * 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian , Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), page 1137:
  • Nor had it been difficult to find a Coptic priest who, together with his youthful novice , chanted the seemingly interminable Egyptian service of the dead [...].

    Synonyms

    * (person new to an activity) amateur, greenhorn, learner, neophyte, newbie, newling * See also

    rudiment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning (often in the plural).
  • We learn the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
  • * Shakespeare
  • This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
  • Something in an undeveloped form (often in the plural).
  • I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
  • * Milton
  • But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments , and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
  • * I. Taylor
  • The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
  • (biology) A body part that no longer has a function
  • (music) In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
  • Hypernyms

    * (biology) vestigiality

    Derived terms

    * rudimental * rudimentary