Topic vs Agenda - What's the difference?
topic | agenda |
(l)
Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.
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(obsolete) An argument or reason.
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(obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
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A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
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As nouns the difference between topic and agenda
is that topic is subject; theme; a category or general area of interest while agenda is plural of lang=en.As an adjective topic
is topical.topic
English
(wikipedia topic)Alternative forms
* topick (obsolete)Adjective
Noun
(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
- contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon
- (Wiseman)
Synonyms
* subjectDerived terms
* topical * subtopic * off-topic * topic mapExternal links
* *Anagrams
* * *agenda
English
(wikipedia agenda)Noun
(en noun)- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
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- A homework agenda , sometimes called a student planner, is a notebook often used to help your child keep track of daily homework assignments.
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- It may be better to simply buy an agenda at the drug store for five dollars, but you need to keep this stuff accurate.
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- The children will use an agenda book that the school provides to organize their homework information. Before leaving for home, the children will neatly write their assignments and related directions in their agendas .