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Tautology vs Chorus - What's the difference?

tautology | chorus |

As nouns the difference between tautology and chorus

is that tautology is (uncountable) redundant use of words while chorus is a group of singers and dancers in the religious festivals of ancient greece.

As a verb chorus is

to echo a particular sentiment.

tautology

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) redundant use of words
    • It is tautology to say, "Forward Planning".
  • (countable) An expression that features tautology.
    • ''The expression "raze to the ground" is a tautology, since the word "raze" includes the notion "to the ground".
  • * 1946 , Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy :
    • Pure mathematics consists of tautologies , analogous to ‘men are men’, but usually more complicated.
  • (countable, logic) A statement that is true for all values of its variables
    • Given a Boolean A, "A OR (NOT A)" is a tautology .
    A logical statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction is a contingency.
    A tautology''' can be verified by constructing a truth tree for its negation: if all of the leaf nodes of such truth tree end in X's, then the original (pre-negated) formula is a '''tautology .

    Antonyms

    * contradiction in terms * (in logic) contradiction * (literary) oxymoron

    Coordinate terms

    * (in logic) contingency, contradiction

    Derived terms

    * tautological * tautologically * tautologise * tautologist * tautologous * tautologously

    See also

    * pleonasm * redundancy * (Tautology) English words suffixed with -ology

    chorus

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A group of singers and dancers in the religious festivals of ancient Greece
  • A group of people in a play or performance who recite together.
  • A group of singers; singing group who perform together.
    • The performance of the chorus was awe-inspiring and exhilarating.
  • A repeated part of a song, also called the refrain .
    • ''The catchiest part of most songs is the chorus .
  • A setting or feature in electronic music that makes one voice sound like many.
  • (figuratively) A group of people or animals who make sounds together
    • A chorus of crickets
    A chorus of whiners
  • The noise made by such a group.
    • a chorus of shouts and catcalls
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Everton 0–2 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.}}
  • (theater) An actor who reads the opening and closing lines of a play.

    • Verb

  • To echo a particular sentiment.
  • To sing the chorus.

    • Related terms

    * choir * choral * chorea * Huntington's chorea * Sydenham's chorea * choreography

    External links

    * (wikipedia "chorus") * ----