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(countable) A particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability.
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, title= (uncountable, archaic) Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.
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* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
* 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 6:20-21
(uncountable) The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.
* 1951 January 1, (Albert Einstein), letter to Maurice Solovine, as published in Letters to Solovine (1993)
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, title= (uncountable) Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
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(uncountable) The scientific community.
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To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
(countable) A domestic fowl, Gallus gallus , especially when young
(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
(countable, slang) A coward.
(countable, gay slang) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair. Compare chickenhawk
(countable, slang) A young or inexperienced person.
* 1887 , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet , III:
* Jonathan Swift
A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (, the loser.)
The game of dare.
To avoid as a result of fear.
To develop physical or other characteristics resembling a chicken's, for example, bumps on the skin.
In countable terms the difference between science and chicken
is that science is a particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability while chicken is a domestic fowl, Gallus gallus, especially when young.In uncountable terms the difference between science and chicken
is that science is the scientific community while chicken is the meat from this bird eaten as food.As an adjective chicken is
cowardly.As a proper noun Chicken is
a CDP in Alaska.science
English
(wikipedia science)Etymology 1
From (etyl) science, from (etyl) .Noun
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science , too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- For by his mightie Science he had seene / The secret vertue of that weapon keene [...].
- If we conceive God's or science', before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, his ' science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass.
- Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy
- O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding vain and profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
- I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of realityWhenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism.
Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
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* engineering * technologyVerb
(scienc)- (Francis)
Etymology 2
See (scion).chicken
English
(wikipedia chicken) (Gallus gallus) (Gallus gallus)Noun
- "This case will make a stir, sir," he remarked. "It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken ."
- Stella is no chicken .
- Don't play chicken with a freight train; you're guaranteed to lose.