Reform vs Ban - What's the difference?
reform | ban |
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct.
* Jonathan Swift
To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
(intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.
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, work=The Onion AV Club
(obsolete) To summon; call out.
To anathematise; pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; place under a ban.
To curse; execrate.
* (Spenser)
* (Sir Walter Scott)
To prohibit; interdict; proscribe; forbid or block from participation.
* (Byron)
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, title= To curse; utter curses or maledictions.
prohibition
* Milton
A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
(obsolete) A curse or anathema.
* Shakespeare
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian (l)
A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian
A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
As a noun reform
is reform.As a proper noun ban is
.reform
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* reformation * amendment * rectification * correctionDerived terms
* monetary reformVerb
(en verb)- to reform''' a profligate man; to '''reform corrupt manners or morals
- The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
- This product contains reformed meat.
- The regiment reformed after surviving the first attack.
- The pop group reformed for one final tour.
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Synonyms
* amend * correct * rectify * mend * repair * better * improve * restore * reclaimAnagrams
* former ----ban
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bannen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).Verb
Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave, passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.}}
A new prescription, passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
Synonyms
* forbid * prohibit * disallowNoun
(en noun)- under ban to touch
- Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice.
- He has sent abroad to assemble his ban and arriere ban.
- The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king.
- ''France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated.
- The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.''
- The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled ‘convoking the ban.
- Hecate's ban