Status vs Identical - What's the difference?
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A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
Prestige or high standing.
* 1957 , Gladys Sellew and Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service , Saunders, page 81
A situation or state of affairs.
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, title= (label) The legal condition of a person or thing.
# The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the .
(label) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
(not comparable) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
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, passage=By this means as many absolutely identical plates can be produced as may be required, and being hardened they will yield a very large number of prints without any appreciable deterioration.}}
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(not comparable) Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
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passage=Nor could I myself look upon this man without some emotion, for he seemed to be the identical person who had picked up the ragged tunic in the lonely wood, and, as a matter of fact, he was!}}
(not comparable, biology) Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
(not comparable, mathematics) Exactly equivalent.
(comparable, rare) Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.
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(usually, pluralized, chiefly, philosophy) Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
As nouns the difference between status and identical
is that status is status while identical is (usually|pluralized|chiefly|philosophy) something which has exactly the same properties as something else.As an adjective identical is
(not comparable) bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.status
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The king has status' in his kingdom, and the pauper has ' status within his immediate group of peers.
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- He is a status Indian.
Derived terms
* status quo * status symbolidentical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The terms of Article 8th are still more identical .