Rubicon vs Rubric - What's the difference?
rubicon | rubric |
An ancient Latin name for a small river in northern Italy which flows into the Adriatic Sea. It marked the boundary between the Roman province of Gaul and the Roman heartland. Its crossing by Julius Caesar in 49 BC began a civil war.
A heading in a book highlighted in red.
A title of a category or a class.
:* That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.
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An established rule or custom, a guideline.
* Hook
* De Quincey
(education) A printed set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
* Alexander Pope
Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.
To adorn with red; to redden.
As nouns the difference between rubicon and rubric
is that rubicon is a limit that when exceeded, or an action that when taken, cannot be reversed while rubric is a heading in a book highlighted in red.As a proper noun Rubicon
is an ancient Latin name for a small river in northern Italy which flows into the Adriatic Sea. It marked the boundary between the Roman province of Gaul and the Roman heartland. Its crossing by Julius Caesar in 49 BC began a civil war.As an adjective rubric is
coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.As a verb rubric is
to adorn with red; to redden.rubicon
English
(wikipedia Rubicon)Proper noun
(en proper noun)Derived terms
* cross the Rubicon * rubiconrubric
English
Alternative forms
* rubrick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics .
- Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.
- (Cowper)
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- What though my name stood rubric on the walls / Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals?
Verb
- (Johnson)
