What's the difference between precept and song?

Precept


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To teach by precepts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was George Wickham who, in Darcy's youth, by personal example and precept largely helped to keep him out of trouble.
  • (2) Rather, there are unwritten standards taught by precept and enforced at the level of science (e.g.
  • (3) Not one pound is getting through to elderly and frail people in our homes … It needs to get through to people who need it.” On the council tax precept , he added: “In northern constituencies they just won’t be able to raise the money, these are impoverished places like Knowsley or Birkenhead, where I am from.
  • (4) By having all second-year residents together, faculty teaching time was efficiently used, and the haphazard results from relying on faculty-resident precepting experiences in the family practice center to provide training in these areas was avoided.
  • (5) The elected commissioners would be responsible for the hiring and firing of chief constables and for setting the council tax "precept" that funds the force.
  • (6) In daily practice physicians are professionally obliged to interpret ethical precepts and laws in emergency situations under extreme pressure when resuscitation measures leave little or no time to consider deontological issues.
  • (7) Commonly accepted precepts are challenged: (1) that homologous chromosome pairing is normally mediated by nuclear envelope attachment sites; (2) that crossover site establishment awaits synaptic completion; and (3) that it is the function of the synaptonemal complex to hold homologues in register so that equal crossing over can occur, and perhaps to provide machinery for the crossover process.
  • (8) Herbert acknowledged that the direct government grant for policing was being cut by 20% in real terms over four years, but said this would be offset by increases in the precept (the funding from local council tax).
  • (9) He is planning to announce the lower threshold for 2015-16 on Wednesday, the same day as the local government finance settlement, but May has warned that police budgets are already under serious strain and it would cost police and crime commissioners £1.1m to stage a referendum if they wished to raise the police precept by more than 1%.
  • (10) In attempting to reach his objective, the restorative dentist must remember the fundamental precept of the health professions, which is: Do no harm.
  • (11) When certain basic precepts peculiar to this age group are observed, the treatment of shaft fractures in young children nevertheless carries a favorable prognosis.
  • (12) He said: "We were clearly the only ones playing with a straight bat and interested in applying the precepts of Scottish justice, which we continue to do and continue to uphold.
  • (13) It seems that a unified family structure reinforces a normative social behavior, but it fosters dependency and restricts breadth of preception and possibilities for exercising diversity in behavior.
  • (14) Ethical precepts are also violated by denying women their right to privacy and by the punitive actions taken against women undergoing abortion by physicians, other health workers, and antiabortion proponents.
  • (15) Human milk is a preferred food for full-term infants during the first six months of life; however, this precept does not suggest that all infants who are exclusively breast-fed will grow adequately.
  • (16) In the Precept pacing system, the right ventricular intracardiac impedance waveform is used to evaluate either of two indicators of metabolic demand relative right ventricular stroke volume and preejection interval (PEI).
  • (17) Young monks study the precepts of their religion in monasteries run by Chinese cadres, even though they know that if they fail to denounce the Dalai Lama they could be dragged away in the middle of the night to face torture and imprisonment.
  • (18) During the first eight months of the clerkship, 23 medical students were observed in a time and motion analysis and a study of the verbal content of the precepting interactions as students presented their patients to a preceptor.
  • (19) These thoughts about an ethic of international health can be summarized in a very free revision of the Hippocratic Oath: I will share the science and art by precept, by demonstration, and by every mode of teaching with other physicians regardless of their national origin.
  • (20) The wide gap between the precepts and practices prevailing among practitioners, the use of potent medicines without proper medical advice and the uninhibited sale of scheduled drugs over the pharmacy counter require careful consideration.

Song


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
  • (n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
  • (n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
  • (n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
  • (n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.
  • (n.) A trifle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
  • (2) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (4) Unilateral lesions of n. intercollicularis (previously implicated in the control of vocal behavior) had little effect on song.
  • (5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
  • (6) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
  • (7) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
  • (8) HVc and RA grow during the subsong and plastic song periods of song development.
  • (9) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
  • (10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
  • (11) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
  • (12) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
  • (13) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
  • (14) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
  • (15) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
  • (16) These results are compatible with the idea that tamoxifen does not block the action of estradiol in the brain of zebra finches, and suggest that the effects of early tamoxifen treatment on the morphology of the song system may reflect central actions of tamoxifen.
  • (17) If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical App,” they explain.
  • (18) Some artists get thousands of songs pitched and they never know, so Beyoncé herself probably never heard it.
  • (19) In mating test, hybrid males cout and are accepted by D. simulans females more than hybrid females (presumably because their song is more "acceptable" to the former).
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.