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Textbook vs Monogram - What's the difference?

textbook | monogram |

As nouns the difference between textbook and monogram

is that textbook is a coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges while monogram is a picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.

As an adjective textbook

is of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.

As a verb monogram is

to mark something with a monogram.

textbook

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
  • * 1917 , George Ransom Twiss, A textbook in the principles of science teaching?
  • It is likely to kill interest, and give both teacher and pupils a didactic, textbook attitude at the very beginning.
  • * 2000 , Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence?
  • They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.
  • * 2004 , David Henn, Old Spain and new Spain: the travel narratives of Camilo José Cela?
  • ...a kind of descriptive account or a social, geographical, anthropological, or historical commentary that may at times have a certain textbook tone to it.
  • Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
  • * 1997 , Alexander De Waal, Famine crimes: politics and the disaster relief industry in Africa?
  • It was a textbook case of how prompt government action could avert a major crisis.
  • * 2003 , Felice Picano, A house on the ocean, a house on the bay?
  • Every night had been clear and star-studded, the progression of the moon through its phases absolutely textbook , its dance with the planets visible in the ecliptic...
  • * 2003 , Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy?
  • In many ways the Korean nuclear crisis is a textbook example of coercive diplomacy — its strengths as well as the risks inherent in such a strategy.

    monogram

    English

    Alternative forms

    * monogramme (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) monogramme, from the Classical (etyl) adjective monogrammus, from the conjectured (etyl) * .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A picture drawn in line only, before the colour and/or shading is applied; an outline sketch.
  • References

    * “ †monogram, n.''¹]” listed in the '' [draft revision; Mar. 2010

    Etymology 2

    Formed as , by analogy with epigram.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, rare) A sentence consisting of only one line, or an epigram consisting of only one verse, of poetry.
  • References

    * “ †monogram, n.''²]” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010

    Etymology 3

    The noun derives from the post-Classical (etyl) monogrammum, itself from the (etyl) ; compare the (etyl) and (etyl) monogramme, as well as the (etyl) monogramma. The verb derives from the noun; compare the earlier adjective monogrammed and the slightly earlier noun monogramming.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A design composed of one or more letters, often intertwined, used as an identifying mark of an individual or institution.
  • References
    * “ monogram, n.''³]” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010

    Verb

    (monogramm)
  • To mark something with a monogram.
  • References
    * “ monogram, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010