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As nouns the difference between society and science

is that society is (lb) a long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms while science is (countable) a particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability or science can be .

As a verb science is

to cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.

society

English

Noun

  • (lb) A long-standing group of people sharing cultural aspects such as language, dress, norms of behavior and artistic forms.
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  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}
  • (lb) A group of people who meet from time to time to engage in a common interest; an association or organization.
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  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society , of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • (lb) The sum total of all voluntary interrelations between individuals.
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  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
    • , title= Cronies and capitols , passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
  • (lb) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.
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  • *{{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), chapter=1, title= Internal Combustion
    • , passage=If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the ever more expensive and then universally known killing hazards of gasoline cars:
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Steven Sloman
    • , volume=100, issue=1, page=74, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation , passage=Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.}}
  • (lb) High society.
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  • A number of people joined by mutual consent to deliberate, determine and act toward a common goal.

    • Derived terms

    * building society * * high society * mutual admiration society * polite society * Royal Society * secret society * societal * society function * society pages

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    science

    English

    (wikipedia science)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) science, from (etyl) .

    Noun

  • (countable) A particular discipline or branch of learning, especially one dealing with measurable or systematic principles rather than intuition or natural ability.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science , too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • (uncountable, archaic) Knowledge gained through study or practice; mastery of a particular discipline or area.
  • * , III.i:
    • For by his mightie Science he had seene / The secret vertue of that weapon keene [...].
  • * Hammond
    • If we conceive God's or science', before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, his ' science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass.
  • * (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
    • Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy
  • * 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 6:20-21
    • O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding vain and profane babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
  • (uncountable) The collective discipline of study or learning acquired through the scientific method; the sum of knowledge gained from such methods and discipline.
  • * 1951 January 1, (Albert Einstein), letter to Maurice Solovine, as published in Letters to Solovine (1993)
    • I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of realityWhenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Philip E. Mirowski, volume=100, issue=1, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist)
    • , title= Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits , passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
  • (uncountable) Knowledge derived from scientific disciplines, scientific method, or any systematic effort.
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  • (uncountable) The scientific community.
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    • Coordinate terms
    * art
    Derived terms
    * applied science * behavioral science * blind with science * computer science * dismal science * down to a science * earth science * exact science * fundamental science * hard science * information science * library science * life science * marine science * natural science * pseudoscience * pure science * science fiction * scientific * scientifically * scientist * social science * soft science * superscience * agriscience * antiscience * archival science * Bachelor of Science * bionanoscience * bioscience * cognitive science * computer science * computer-science * crank science * creation science * cyberscience * dismal science * down to a science * earth science * environmental science * ethnoscience * forensic science * formal science * geographic information science * geoscience * geroscience * glycoscience * hard science * Hollywood science * information science * junk science * Letters and Science * library and information science * library science * life science * Master of Science * McScience * multiscience * nanoscience * natural science * neuroscience * nonscience * non-science * omniscience * palaeoscience * philosophy of science * photoscience * physical science * planetary science * political science * pop-science * popular science * proscience * protoscience * pseudoscience * pseudo-science * rocket science * science centre * science fair * science fiction * science room * scienceless * sciencelike * social science * social-science * soil science * space science * sweet science * systems science * technoscience * unscience
    See also
    * engineering * technology

    Verb

    (scienc)
  • To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct.
    • (Francis)

    Etymology 2

    See (scion).

    Noun

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