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Trademark vs Technique - What's the difference?

trademark | technique |

As nouns the difference between trademark and technique

is that trademark is a word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products while technique is (uncountable) the practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc; formal requirements.

As an adjective trademark

is (informal) distinctive, characteristic, signature.

As a verb trademark

is to register something as a trademark.

trademark

Adjective

(-)
  • (informal) distinctive, characteristic, signature
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Riise did crash a fantastic, trademark free-kick against the bar from 25 yards but it was the Potters who increasingly posed the greater threat.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
  • Any proprietary business, product or service name.
  • *
  • See also

    * brand

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To register something as a trademark.
  • To so label a product.
  • Usage notes

    Among practitioners of trademark law, it is generally considered incorrect to use “trademark” as a verb; the preferred terminology would be to use'' a trademark or to ''register a trademark.

    technique

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements.
  • * 1924 , HE Wortham, A Musical Odyssey , p. 97:
  • Brahms, after realizing that the technique of the piano was developing along mistaken lines, and his own danger of stereotyping his style, keeps away from it for most of his middle age [...].
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
  • (uncountable) Practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill.
  • * 2011 , "Bhimsen Joshi", The Economist , 3 Feb 2011:
  • Yet those who packed concert halls to listen to him sing, as Indians did for over six decades, rarely mentioned his technique .
  • (label) a method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge.
  • * 2011 , Paul Lewis & Matthew Taylor, The Guardian , 16 Mar 2011:
  • They said executives were warned about one technique nicknamed "carpet karaoke", which involved bending deportees over in aircraft seats to silence them.