Stereotype vs Distinction - What's the difference?
stereotype | distinction |
A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
(UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language
To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
To print from a stereotype.
(figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
* Duke of Argyll (1887)
That which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination.
The act of distinguishing, discriminating; discrimination.
* {{quote-book, year=1921, title=
, author=(Bertrand Russell), chapter=Lecture II
, passage=In spite of these qualifications, the broad distinction between instinct and habit is undeniable. To take extreme cases, every animal at birth can take food by instinct, before it has had opportunity to learn; on the other hand, no one can ride a bicycle by instinct, though, after learning, the necessary movements become just as automatic as if they were instinctive.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1911, title=
, chapter=Evidence
, passage=But, for practical purposes, it is possible to draw a distinction between a statement of facts observed and an expression of opinion as to the inference to be drawn from these facts, and the rule telling witnesses to state facts and not express opinions is of great value in keeping their statements out of the region of argument and conjecture.}}
Specifically, a feature that causes someone or something to stand out as being better; a mark of honour, rank, eminence or excellence; being distinguished.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup'' (in ''The Guardian , 15 October 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/oct/15/england-poland-world-cup-qualifier]
As a verb stereotype
is .As a noun distinction is
that which distinguishes; a single occurrence of a determining factor or feature, the fact of being divided; separation, discrimination.stereotype
English
(wikipedia stereotype)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stereotyp)- to stereotype the Bible
- Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
See also
* stereotypic * stereotypical ----distinction
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Mother
- Leighton Baines, playing with distinction again, sent over a left-wing cross with pace and accuracy. Welbeck, prominently involved all night, could not reach it but Rooney was directly behind him, flashing his header past Szczesny.