Treatment vs Cure - What's the difference?
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The process or manner of treating someone or something.
(senseid)Medical care for an illness or injury.
The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
(countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
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(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
(obsolete) entertainment; treat
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
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, title= Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Luke xii. 32
A solution to a problem.
* Dryden
* Bishop Hurd
A process of preservation, as by smoking.
A process of solidification or gelling.
(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
* Chaucer
* Fuller
Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
* (rfdate) Spelman
That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.
To restore to health.
To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= To cause to be rid of (a defect).
To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
To bring about a of any kind.
To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
To solidify or gel.
(obsolete) To become healed.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
In obsolete terms the difference between treatment and cure
is that treatment is entertainment; treat while cure is to pay heed; to care; to give attention.As nouns the difference between treatment and cure
is that treatment is the process or manner of treating someone or something while cure is a method, device or medication that restores good health.As a verb cure is
to restore to health.treatment
English
Noun
- He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.
- A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
- Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
- The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment .
- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
Derived terms
* silent treatmentcure
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.}}
- Past hope! past cure !
- I do cures to-day and to-morrow.
- Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure .
- the proper cure of such prejudices
- Of study took he most cure and most heed.
- vicarages of great cure , but small value
- The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.
Derived terms
* anti-cure * cure is worse than the disease * cureless * miscure * sweetcure * take the cure * water cureVerb
(cur)- Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, / Is able with the change to kill and cure .
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}
- One desperate grief cures with another's languish.