Permanent vs Tenure - What's the difference?
permanent | tenure |
Without end, eternal.
Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
* 1943 , (Raymond Chandler), The High Window , Penguin 2005, p. 8:
(linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an matrix , the sum over all permutations of .
A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
* Cowper
A period of time during which something is possessed.
A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
A right to hold land under the feudal system.
To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).
As nouns the difference between permanent and tenure
is that permanent is a chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm while tenure is a status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.As a adjective permanent
is without end, eternal.As a verb tenure is
to grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).permanent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Nothing in this world is truly permanent .
- The countries are now locked in a permanent state of conflict.
Antonyms
* impermanent, temporaryDerived terms
* permanently * permanent marker * permanent wave * permanent wayNoun
(wikipedia permanent) (en noun)- She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent , a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.
See also
* determinant * ephemeral * relaxer * temporaryExternal links
* * * ----tenure
English
Noun
(en noun)- All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.