Professor vs Give - What's the difference?
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A teacher or faculty member at a college or university.
A higher ranking for a teacher or faculty member at a college or university. Abbreviated
An honorific title for a higher ranking teacher. (Capitalised)
(archaic) One who professes.
* 1897 , Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (transl.) The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage'', Introduction, p. ''v :
(US, slang) A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 415:
The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
(may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
# To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
# To make a present or gift of.
# To pledge.
# To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
# To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.
# To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
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# To pass (something) into (someone's) hand or the like.
# To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
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(may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
To yield slightly when a force is applied.
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To collapse under pressure or force.
To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
* 2003 , Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function , page 153
* 2006 , Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur , page 248
To lead (onto or into).
To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
* Shakespeare
To allow or admit by way of supposition.
* Milton
To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
* Sheridan
To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
(dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
* Rowe
* Alexander Pope
(reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
To become soft or moist.
To shed tears; to weep.
* Shakespeare
To have a misgiving.
* J. Webster
To be going on, to be occurring
(uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
As nouns the difference between professor and give
is that professor is professor while give is (uncountable) the amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.As a verb give is
(may take two objects) to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.professor
English
(wikipedia professor)Alternative forms
* professour (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- Professor Plum'' or ''Prof. Plum .
- This period in which Abraham the Jew lived was one in which Magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its Professors were held in honour;
- You could hear [...] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.
Synonyms
* profDerived terms
* adjunct professor * assistant professor * associate professor * full professor * professorial * professoriate * professorly * professorshipgive
English
Verb
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- Study gives' strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to '''give''' stiffness, the other suppleness: one ' gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.
- A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".
- The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
- But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
- I give not heaven for lost.
- I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover.
- It is given me once again to behold my friend.
- Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
- The soldiers give themselves to plunder.
- That boy is given to fits of bad temper.
- (Francis Bacon)
- Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter.
- My mind gives ye're reserved / To rob poor market women.
Synonyms
* (transfer possession of) donate, pass, transfer * (bend slightly when a force is applied) bend, cede, flex, move, yield * (estimate or predict) estimate, guess, predict * (provide)Antonyms
* (transfer possession of) get, obtain, receive, take * (bend slightly when a force is applied) not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resistDerived terms
See also'' given''', '''giver''' ''and'' ' giving * forgive * * give and take * give away * give away the store * give back * give birth * give forth * give head * give in * give it one's all * give it one's best shot * give it up for * given * give off * give one's all * give one's daughter away * give on to * give or take * give out * give over * give pause * give someone a break * give someone a chance * give someone a kiss * give someone grief * give someone the business * give someone the time of day * give something a miss * give something a shot * give something a try * give thanks * give to understand * give up * give way * it is better to give than to receive * something's got to give * what gives? * you only get what you giveNoun
(-)- This chair doesn't have much give .