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Thesis vs Doctorate - What's the difference?

thesis | doctorate |

As nouns the difference between thesis and doctorate

is that thesis is a statement supported by arguments while doctorate is the highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

As a verb doctorate is

to make into a doctor.

thesis

English

Noun

(theses)
  • A statement supported by arguments.
  • A written essay, especially one submitted for a university degree.
  • * Goldsmith
    • I told them of the grave, becoming, and sublime deportment they should assume upon this mystical occasion, and read them two homilies and a thesis of my own composing, to prepare them.
  • (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
  • (music) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; the opposite of arsis.
  • (poetry) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
  • (poetry) The part of the metrical foot upon which such a depression falls.

    • Derived terms

    * master's thesis * doctoral thesis

    Related terms

    * antithesis * hypothesis * prothesis * prosthesis * synthesis

    See also

    * dissertation

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    doctorate

    English

    (wikipedia doctorate)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The highest degree awarded by a university faculty.

    • Derived terms

    * postdoctorate

    Verb

    (doctorat)
  • (archaic) To make into a doctor.
  • * Fuller
    • He was bred in Oxford and there doctorated .
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