Scholar vs Adherent - What's the difference?
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A student; one who studies at school or college.
A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
A learned person; a bookman.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Adhesive, sticking to something.
Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
(botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
As nouns the difference between scholar and adherent
is that scholar is a student; one who studies at school or college while adherent is a person who has membership in some group, association or religion.As an adjective adherent is
adhesive, sticking to something.scholar
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(Scholarly method)Noun
(en noun)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,
Derived terms
* independent scholar * scholarly * scholarshipSee also
* savantExternal links
* *Anagrams
*adherent
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- (Alexander Pope)