Rubric vs Term - What's the difference?
rubric | term |
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.
Limitation, restriction or regulation. (rfex)
Any of the binding conditions or promises in a legal contract.
That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
* Francis Bacon
(geometry) A point, line, or superficies that limits.
A word or phrase, especially one from a specialised area of knowledge.
Relations among people.
* , chapter=22
, title= Part of a year, especially one of the three parts of an academic year.
(mathematics) Any value (variable or constant) or expression separated from another term by a space or an appropriate character, in an overall expression or table.
(logic) The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
* Sir W. Hamilton
(architecture) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr.
Duration of a set length; period in office of fixed length.
(computing) A terminal emulator, a program that emulates a video terminal.
(of a patent) The maximum period during which the patent can be maintained into force.
(astrology) An essential dignity in which unequal segments of every astrological sign have internal rulerships which affect the power and integrity of each planet in a natal chart.
(archaic) A menstrual period.
* 1660 , (Samuel Pepys), Diary
(nautical) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
To phrase a certain way, especially with an unusual wording.
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As nouns the difference between rubric and term
is that rubric is a heading in a book highlighted in red while term is term.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)- 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)
External links
* *term
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(wikipedia term)Noun
(en noun)- Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms , or boundaries.
- A line is the term''' of a superficies, and a superficies is the '''term of a solid.
- "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
- The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes.
- My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again.
Derived terms
{{der3, at term , blanket term , collective term , come to terms , long-term , midterm , short-term , term limit , term logic , term of art , terms and conditions , umbrella term}}See also
* idiom * lexeme * listeme * wordVerb
(en verb)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}