What's the difference between instructor and professor?

Instructor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who instructs; one who imparts knowledge to another; a teacher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) and (4) Compared to the instruction provided by instructors from other medical and academic disciplines, do paediatric residents perceive differences in the teaching efficacy and clinical relevance of instruction provided by paediatricians?
  • (2) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
  • (3) Implications for retaining field instructors and directions for further research are highlighted.
  • (4) An accurate portrait of BLS and ACLS instructors is crucial for organizations such as the American Heart Association if they wish to attract and retain instructors.
  • (5) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
  • (6) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
  • (7) A questionnaire showed that instructors liked the unit, found it useful, and would use it again.
  • (8) The Balance Index is a list of standards by which instructors can assess the postures and position in the clinical performance of dental students.
  • (9) The findings suggest that educational environment and perceived qualities of instructor supportiveness are essential to the effectiveness of a socially oriented educational program.
  • (10) Self-evaluation opportunities by students and assessment of performance by instructors using objective criteria have been developed for each phase of complete denture prosthodontics and placed within a text illustrating methods to reach the desired standards.
  • (11) No differences in outcome measures were found between groups led by professional instructors and those led by lay instructors.
  • (12) It details the efforts at Ohio State University to supply this instruction and demonstrates the positive results of library user education as seen by the instructors of occupational therapy students.
  • (13) The Surf's Up Surf School has been operating from the beach for 15 years and has an experienced team of instructors (including a former New Zealand national-level coach, Kelly O'Toole) who are prepared to work with everyone from complete beginners to elite riders.
  • (14) For example, faculty members ranked characteristics dealing with the clinical instructor's relationship with students to be more important than those dealing with professional competence--the opposite of Brown's results.
  • (15) Quality of CPR was graded by three CPR instructors using explicit criteria.
  • (16) The programme was multidisciplinary and consisted of a combination of physical activity, formal lectures about health matters and individual consultations with doctor, psychologist, social worker, nurse and sports instructor.
  • (17) He became an instructor in radar at RAF Debden, near Saffron Walden, Essex, and attained the rank of flying officer.
  • (18) In this paper the author presents a rationale and a systematic procedure for the construction, implementation, and analysis of student feedback data which will provide both valid and reliable information about specific areas of the educational process that are controllable by instructors.
  • (19) Andy Hill, a 51-year-old former RAF instructor with more than 12,000 hours of flying experience, is a skilled aerobatic flyer and a regular at airshows, said fellow pilot, who flew earlier in the show.
  • (20) Everyone seemed to be cheating and the instructors weren't doing anything to stop it.

Professor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.
  • (n.) One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (3) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (4) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
  • (5) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
  • (6) Harvey Whiteford, Kratzmann professor of psychiatry and population health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said depression was very common and was the second leading cause of health-related disability.
  • (7) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
  • (8) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
  • (9) Abigail Aiken, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said the numbers inevitably underrepresented the demand.
  • (10) We are effectively in funding limbo Professor Barney Glover, Universities Australia chair Glover was also set to emphasise the need for affordability because “cost must not deter any capable student from pursuing a university education”.
  • (11) In the 17 student groups (nine in the morning shift, eight on the evening schedule), significant differences were found in the biochemical subjects under study (p = 0), among the nine individual professors (p = 0), between the morning vs. evening shift students (p = 0.014) and between the 17 student groups (p = 0.04).
  • (12) Professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School.
  • (13) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
  • (14) The scale of fees that potentially are there in the Italian banking market – from restructurings and consolidation – are substantial,” said Peter Hahn, professor of banking at the London Institute of Banking & Finance.
  • (15) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
  • (16) "The more I've worked on data protection over the past 20 years, the more I've realised that at the heart of this, what matters as much as the privacy aspect is the issue of human decision-making," said Mayer-Schönberger, professor of internet governance at the Oxford Internet Institute.
  • (17) Professor Joseph Pearlman City University, London • Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com
  • (18) He was supported by Professor John Appleby, chief economist at the King's Fund, who calculated that the NHS would have £910m less to spend over that period.
  • (19) This paper argues that although this is true of some types of obligation, including the ones discussed by Professor Kluge, it is by no means true of all.
  • (20) This judgement is particularly significant for the UK as it was the testimony of two leading experts, Professor Nicholas J. Wald and Sir Richard Doll, whose evidence helped convince the Judge about the harmful health effects of passive smoke.