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Policeman vs Diplomatic - What's the difference?

policeman | diplomatic |

As nouns the difference between policeman and diplomatic

is that policeman is a member of a police force, especially one who is male while diplomatic is diplomat.

policeman

English

Noun

(policemen)
  • A member of a police force, especially one who is male.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman' s helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • (chemistry) A glass rod capped at one end with rubber, used in a chemistry laboratory for gravimetric analysis.

    • Synonyms

    * (member of a police force) See * (glass rod with rubber cap) rubber policeman

    Antonyms

    * policewoman

    Hypernyms

    * police officer

    Derived terms

    * sleeping policeman

    See also

    * constable English nouns with irregular plurals

    diplomatic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * diplomatick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Concerning the relationships between the governments of countries.
    • She spent thirty years working for Canada's diplomatic service.
    Albania immediately severed diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.
  • Exhibiting diplomacy; exercising tact or courtesy; using discussion to avoid hard feelings, fights or arguments.
    • Thoughtful corrections can be diplomatic as well as instructional.
  • describing a publication of a text which follows a single basic manuscript, but with variants in other manuscripts noted in the critical apparatus
  • * Whereas a diplomatic edition uses as its base text a single, "best" manuscript, to which other textual evidence is collated and organized into an apparatus, a critical text of the LXX/OG may be described as a collection of the oldest recoverable texts, carefully restored book by book (or section by section), aiming at achieving the closest approximation to the original translations (from Hebrew or Aramaic) or compositions (in Greek), systematically reconstructed from the widest array of relevant textual data (including controlled conjecture).'' The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, ''Critical Editions of Septuagint/Old Greek Texts .
  • Relating to diplomatics, or the study of old texts; paleographic.

    • Derived terms

    * diplomatic bag * diplomatic flu * diplomatic immunity * diplomatic mission * diplomatic pouch * diplomatic relations

    Noun

    (-)
  • The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
  • * 1983 , Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett, Studies in English legal history (page 151)
    • In its broadest aspect, the subject-matter of diplomatic is the relation between documents and facts.
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