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Thesaurus vs Commanding - What's the difference?

thesaurus | commanding |

As nouns the difference between thesaurus and commanding

is that thesaurus is thesaurus while commanding is the act of giving a command.

As a verb commanding is

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As an adjective commanding is

tending to give commands, authoritarian.

thesaurus

English

(wikipedia thesaurus)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
    • "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus'' that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
  • (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
  • (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings—canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.

    • Synonyms

    * synonymicon

    Derived terms

    * thesaural

    See also

    * ontology * *

    External links

    * * * Roget's Thesaurus can be found at: http://www.bartleby.com/thesauri ----

    commanding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
  • Impressively dominant.

    • Synonyms

    * (tending to give commands) bossy, imposing * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a command.
  • * 2006 , William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions (page 172)
    • God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.