Protocol vs Argument - What's the difference?
protocol | argument |
* 1842 , Thomas Campbell, Frederick the Great and his Times , vol. II, p. 47:
* 1970 , Matthew Smith Anderson, The Great Powers and the Near East, 1774-1923 , p. 32:
(international law) An amendment to an official treaty.
* 2002 , Philippe Sands, Principles of International Environmental Law , p. 917 n. 253:
The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
* 1991 , Leila Avrin, Scribes, Script, and Books , p. 146:
The official formulas which appeared at the beginning or end of certain official documents such as charters, papal bulls etc.
* 1985 , Archivum Historiae Pontificiae , v. 23, p. 14:
(sciences) The original notes of observations made during an experiment; also, the precise method for carrying out or reproducing a given experiment.
* 1931 , Gye & Purdy, The Cause of Cancer , p. 194:
The official rules and guidelines for heads of state and other dignitaries, governing accepted behaviour in relations with other diplomatic representatives or over affairs of state.
* 2009 , Laura Johnson, "A mwah too far", The Guardian , 19 Sep 2009:
(by extension) An accepted code of conduct; acceptable behaviour in a given situation or group.
* 2010 , The Guardian , 16 Jul 2010:
(computing) A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
* 2006 , Zheng & Ni, Smart Phone and Next-Generation Mobile Computing , p. 444:
(medicine) The set of instructions allowing a licensed medical professional to start, modify, or stop a medical or patient care order.
(obsolete) To make a protocol of.
(obsolete) To make or write protocols, or first drafts; to issue protocols.
A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
* Ray
A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
A process of reasoning.
* John Locke
(philosophy, logic) A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
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(mathematics) The independent variable of a function.
(programming) A value, or reference to a value, passed to a function.
* {{quote-web, date = 2011-07-20
, author = Edwin Mares
, title = Propositional Functions
, site = The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
, url = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2011/entries/propositional-function
, accessdate = 2012-07-15 }}
(programming) A parameter in a function definition; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
(linguistics) Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
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(astronomy) The quantity on which another quantity in a table depends.
The subject matter of a discourse, writing, or artistic representation; theme or topic; also, an abstract or summary, as of the contents of a book, chapter, poem.
* Shakespeare
* Jeffrey
* Milton
Matter for question; business in hand.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between protocol and argument
is that protocol is while argument is proof, reason, point.As a verb protocol
is (obsolete|transitive) to make a protocol of.protocol
English
(wikipedia protocol)Noun
(en noun)- Another account says that, on the morning of the 31st of May, the king delivered to the prince-royal the crown, the sceptre, and the key of his treasure and gave him his blessing. The privy-counsillor Vockerodt drew up at his desire a protocol of the transaction.
- The terms of this protocol formed the basis for the Treaty of London signed by the British, French and Russian governments on 6 July 1827.
- The 1992 Protocol amended the definitions of other terms, including ‘ship’, ‘oil’ and ‘incident’: Art. 2.
- They marked the beginning of each scroll with their protocol''''', a practice that continued in the papyrus trade in the Byzantine Empire [...] into the Islamic period, when there were bilingual ' protocols in Greek and Arabic.
- The protocol of the bull contains elements that appear to be formulaic by the time of John XVIII 's pontificate.
- The following is an abstract of the protocol of the experiment: Tumour extract. —A measured 16 c.c. of minced Rous Sarcoma tissue was ground with sand and extracted with 400 c.c. of 0.8-per-cent. saline.
- Even the Queen (for whom the curtsey is a more standard address) was recently treated to an enthusiastic Obama embrace. Her Majesty, who is not normally known for partaking in such public displays of affection, seemed unperturbed by Michelle Obama's disregard for royal protocol .
- For those uncertain in the protocol of handshaking a formula for the perfect handshake has been devised by scientists at the University of Manchester.
- An exception is Jabber, which is designed based on an open protocol called the extensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP).
Synonyms
* procedure * policyVerb
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Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- There is no more palpable and convincing argument of the existence of a Deity.
- The argument is not about things, but names.
- In ‘The Critic of Arguments’ (1892), Peirce adopts a notion that is even closer to that of a propositional function. There he develops the concept of the ‘rhema’. He says the rhema is like a relative term, but it is not a term. It contains a copula, that is, when joined to the correct number of arguments it produces an assertion. For example, ‘__ is bought by __ from __ for __’ is a four-place rhema. Applying it to four objects a'', ''b'', ''c'', and ''d'' produces the assertion that ''a'' is bought by ''b'' from ''c'' for ''d (ibid. 420).
- Parameters are like labeled fillable blanks used to define a function whereas arguments are passed to a function when calling it, filling in those blanks.
- In numerous works over the past two decades, beginning with the pioneering work of Gruber (1965), Fillmore (1968a), and Jackendoff (1972), it has been argued that each Argument' (i.e. Subject or Complement) of a Predicate bears a particular ''thematic role'' (alias ''theta-role'', or ''θ-role'' to its Predicate), and that the set of ''thematic functions'' which ' Arguments can fulfil are drawn from a highly restricted, finite, universal set.
- The altitude is the argument of the refraction.
- You and love are still my argument .
- the abstract or argument of the piece
- [shields] with boastful argument portrayed
- Sheathed their swords for lack of argument .