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Rubric vs Instruction - What's the difference?

rubric | instruction |

As nouns the difference between rubric and instruction

is that rubric is a heading in a book highlighted in red while instruction is (lb) the act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.

As an adjective rubric

is coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.

As a verb rubric

is to adorn with red; to redden.

rubric

English

Alternative forms

* rubrick (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
    • All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics .
  • * De Quincey
    • Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.
    (Cowper)
  • (education) A printed set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.

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    Related terms

    * rubricate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • What though my name stood rubric on the walls / Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals?
  • Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.

    • Verb

  • To adorn with red; to redden.
    • (Johnson)

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    instruction

    English

    (wikipedia instruction) (Webster 1913)

    Noun

  • (lb) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
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  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • (lb) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:If my instructions may be your guide.
  • (lb) An order or command.
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  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • (lb) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.

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