diploma vs certificate vs degree
Definitions
noun
- a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study
Examples
Curiously, for a politician who made much of the fact that what happened in the rest of the world was not always Washington's concern, diplomacy has been the keynote of his first months in office.
The officials and diplomats spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of the negotiations on what tack to take on Iran.
To my mind, Tom Hank's Forrest Gump is a Walter Mitty , for he sometimes was a Vietnamese War hero and later a table tennis diplomat between America and China.
Definitions
noun
- a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends
- a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts
verb
- authorize by certificate
- present someone with a certificate
Examples
None of the fathers' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment.
Many of them had not undertaken even the leaving certificate or the academic entry qualifications necessary to enter university.
As the author repeatedly points out, the pornographic material he seized wasn't simply more explicit than 18-certificate films or top-shelf magazines.
Definitions
noun
- a unit of temperature on a specified scale
- the highest power of a term or variable
- a measure for arcs and angles
- the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime)
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
Examples
And those involved are pretty small: a few degrees between cooler land and warmer ocean at night, a few tens of degrees between tropics and poles.
BRODY: They had to deal with that, and so they're reticent to a certain degree to kind of delve into some of the faith issues as it relates to the political environment, if you will, because they know that he can get a lot of backlash.
The clergyman and his son pricked up their ears at this, photography being with them only a degree less absorbing a pastime than that of walking; Ron awoke suddenly to the remembrance that his half-plate camera had never been unpacked since his arrival; and the three vied with each other in asking questions about the proposed excursion, and in urging that a date should be fixed.
