What's the difference between didactic and proverb?

Didactic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Didactical
  • (n.) A treatise on teaching or education.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some didactic implications concerning the significance of the chance set-up and reliance on analogies are discussed.
  • (2) Although 100 per cent claim that gastrointestinal endoscopy is provided by their program, only 76 per cent have formal endoscopy training, usually centered around the PGY 3 level, with only 23 per cent having didactic lectures in endoscopy.
  • (3) Graduate courses of medical pedagogy and special didactics at S. Paulo University Medical School are analysed.
  • (4) The first three months of the program are devoted to didactic training and the remaining six months to acquiring practical experience.
  • (5) If the steady flow of books which began with Economic Problems Of The Church (1955) can, to some extent, be seen as a succession of more scholarly explorations of the themes sketched out in the early didactic essays, they also reflect the extraordinary sweep of Hill's interests and mind.
  • (6) The use of the workshop as a didactical method in the presentation of clinical practica to community health nursing students at the distance teaching University of South Africa is described.
  • (7) Group 1 was given general objectives and information regarding availability of recommended resources, including self-learning materials for the elective, didactic seminars, and viewbox exposure.
  • (8) Interestingly, this study found that the students' self-assessed changes between post-didactic training and post-clinical training were significant in only one area--their ability to manage the medical emergencies of elderly patients, including a patient's death in the dental chair.
  • (9) The quality of the training to a great extent depends on the didactic skill, willingness to teach and a not inconsiderable expense of time for the chief physician, the assistant chief physician and the physician in charge of the wards during visits and when working in the ward.
  • (10) Many general surgeons have incorporated laparoscopic cholecystectomy into their clinical practices, usually after completing a postgraduate didactic and laboratory animal training course.
  • (11) The didactic value is underlined by color photographs taken of diseased skin and nails with the dermatoscope at various magnifications.
  • (12) This, also, is a didactic music workshop with a difference - part of an umbrella programme called Discovery, established 20 years ago by the LSO as the orchestra's outreach wing, with a mission not unlike that of Venezuela's Sistema, but streamlined over two decades for application to home ground.
  • (13) The 30-day hospital training program described includes both didactic material and on-the-job experience.
  • (14) Many programs (40%) have less than ten hours of didactic training in pediatrics and 41% offer ten hours or less of clinical experience.
  • (15) Training consisted of didactic presentations on the pathophysiology of alcohol withdrawal syndrome and information on use of the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol (CIWA-A).
  • (16) This set of objectives may be used to guide a one-month radiology rotation or serve as part of a teaching program integrated with didactic training and emergency department experience.
  • (17) Didactic purposes and proof of plausibility may require more data than just the final results.
  • (18) Didactic teaching methods were exchanged for a more creative approach without alteration of the course structure.
  • (19) To introduce the residents to the principles of surgical techniques in a simulated environment outside the operating room, the program consisted of a combination of two didactic sessions and six "wet labs" taking 3 to 4 hours per week for 8 weeks between January and March each year.
  • (20) The sessions vary in structure from didactic lecture to group work.

Proverb


Definition:

  • (n.) An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage.
  • (n.) A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
  • (n.) A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
  • (n.) A drama exemplifying a proverb.
  • (v. t.) To name in, or as, a proverb.
  • (v. t.) To provide with a proverb.
  • (v. i.) To write or utter proverbs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
  • (2) He quoted a Chinese proverb that to be a painter "you need the eye, the hand and the heart.
  • (3) "We have an African proverb: when two elephants fight, the grass gets trampled."
  • (4) A Group by Type of Proverb (familiar versus unfamiliar) interaction was found for bizarre-idiosyncratic scores; (Per-Mags) scored higher than controls on unfamiliar, but not familiar proverbs.
  • (5) Judgment and abstraction are examined by assessing the client's ability to interpret proverbs and plot a sensible course of action.
  • (6) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
  • (7) The proverbs appeared either in their original form or with their final word changed to be incongruous with the sentence context.
  • (8) More men in the rural area expected help in old age from their sons (10.1%) rather than their daughters (6.1%), despite the fact that a popular proverb exists, especially among the Creoles, that sons are for the mother while the daughters are for the father.
  • (9) Holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy he has time to think, and quoted both Aristotle and the Books of Proverbs on the natural human thirst for knowledge and understanding on the world in which we live.
  • (10) A proverb of the Buddhist religion often quoted by physicist Richard Feynman encapsulates the whole discussion, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."
  • (11) Familiarity with a proverb increased the probability of its correct interpretation.
  • (12) Russians have a proverb: beat your own so the others fear you.
  • (13) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
  • (14) It was also found that performance on the proverb task steadily improved at least through the eighth grade and was significantly correlated to performance on a perceptual analogical reasoning task.
  • (15) Libyans have a saying: “In Libya it is region against region; in the regions, tribe against tribe; in the tribes, family against family.” The five years following the revolution gave grim confirmation to that proverb.
  • (16) 36 male patients (12 schizophrenic, 12 organic, and 12 neurotic), age 19-57, each took two forms of the Gorham Proverbs test under two different instructional sets.
  • (17) But we have a Russian proverb which goes: “Even an old lady can have a roof falling on her.
  • (18) Why you should listen : “Answer not a fool according to his folly,” it says in Proverbs, “lest thou also be like unto him.” Jones’s appearance on Rogan’s show is a cautionary tale.
  • (19) But our favourite has to be this – somewhat dubious – suggestion from Bill Wright, relating to Proverbs 13:23: " A poor man's field may produce abundant food, but injustice sweeps it away."
  • (20) The data were collected using the Benjamin Proverb Test and rating scales for psychopathology and adverse effects.