What's the difference between professor and professoriate?

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.

Professoriate


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.
  • (n.) A professorship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This was done in lectures and publications but, above all, in his appointment, in 1967, to the first professorial chair of religious studies at Lancaster.
  • (2) This study takes in account all post operative deaths during the year 1990 in one surgical Professorial unit of Lille academic hospital (France).
  • (3) To some observers, this aura of balanced impartiality has made President Obama seem austere and professorial.
  • (4) Thirty-five Black patients with cirrhosis of the liver were admitted to the professorial unit over a 1-year period and were included in a carefully planned prospective study.
  • (5) On the basis of experience gained during the implementation of this form of treatment at the Professorial Casualty Unit of the 2nd Department of Surgery, University of Vienna, during the years 1671--1974, guide lines are laid down for the achievement of a successful outcome of transplantation with a minimal complication rate.
  • (6) With his receding hairline, grey jacket and lean, thoughtful face, Thomas has a professorial air, delivering smoothly erudite monologues in a voice rather like Vincent Cassel's.
  • (7) The experience of a professorial unit over a four-year period of carcinoma of the colon and rectum is described.
  • (8) The Geelong Hospital Professorial Nursing Unit was established in June 1989.
  • (9) Whereas Lister's influence was tremendous in fostering acceptance of antisepsis by surgeons, by the end of his professorial career he had begun his capitulation to prophylactic antisepsis, which was complete by 1896 to the very practices that Semmelweis had proved the value of almost five decades previously.
  • (10) Compared with them, Franzen comes across as serious, professorial.
  • (11) The results of surgical treatment of 550 cases of carcinoma of the rectum presenting to the Professorial Surgical Unit of the General Infirmary, Leeds, from 1955 to 1968 have been analysed.
  • (12) The current institutional quality, then, had direct effects on current attainments in the areas of professorial rank, publication productivity, and income.
  • (13) We determined the representation of women physicians on US medical school faculties by enumeration from school catalogues according to professorial rank, title series, and department affilitation.
  • (14) Professorial surgical unit, Royal Liverpool Hospital.
  • (15) Only the … younger brother remains.” In a long, professorial statement, Bruck appealed to the jury to save Tsarnaev’s life, outlining the argument the defence has been expected to make all along: that Tamerlan masterminded the attack, and was the driving force behind it, and that Dzhokhar – who, as they have throughout the trial, they called by his university nickname “Jahar” – was just following along.
  • (16) President Obama acted as though someone else had been in the White House these past four years, and offered a scatter-brained professorial presentation of theory, with nothing to brag about from his presidency.
  • (17) Normally taciturn and professorial, Zeidan threatened to attack the tanker and sink it if it tried to leave.
  • (18) Professor of Deep-Sea Biology and Professorial Research Fellow, University of Southampton National Oceanography Centre.
  • (19) In the teaching-learning plan followed--described in the article--the conventional professorial lecture and its accompanying practical demonstrations are replaced by round tables and theoretical-practical tasks requiring active involvement and integrating theory and practice, in which teams tackle problems under teacher coordination.
  • (20) Prof David Molyneux, senior professorial fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine , says that NTDs also take a severe toll on the mental health of patients, something that's been relatively overlooked until now.

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