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Difference Between Occupation and Profession

The words occupation and profession are interchangeable.

Profession and occupation are almost the same, WIth only minor differences between them.

The difference between occupation and profession can be stated with a simple example:

Designing a building would be called a profession,

Whereas, constructing a building is an occupation.

A profession needs extensive training and specialized knowledge.

On the other hand, an occupation does not need any extensive training.

A person with an occupation need not have specialized knowledge of his trade.

Difference Between Rat and Mouse

Rat and mouse are actually not scientific classifications.

These words are common names for rodents that look alike to the casual eye.

Rat is used to describe medium-sized rodents with long thin tails.

There are many species of rodent that are called rats -- kangaroo rats, cotton rats, Norway rats, black rats, African pouched rats, naked mole rats, wood rats, pack rats, Polynesian rats, and many others.

These different rodent species may not be closely related to each other at all!

Mouse is used to describe tiny, sparrow-sized rodents with long thin tails.

As with rats, there are many species of rodents called mice which may or may not be closely related to each other: house mice, field mice, deer mice, smoky mice, spiny mice, and dormice are all called mice.

Difference Between Mind and Brain

A computer required hardware to perform its function.

And the hardware need software to make it run.

Without software, hardware would be useless and without hardware, software cannot be used.

Brain is like the hardware and mind is like the software.

But in reality, the difference between brain and mind are more complicated than software and hardware.

In our culture we sometimes use the words brain and mind interchangeably even though they really do refer to separate, although often overlapping, concepts.

The brain is an organ but the mind isn't.

The brain is the physical place where the mind resides.

It is a vessel in which the electronic impulses that create thought are contained.

With the brain you coordinate your moves, your organism, your activities and transmit impulses.

But you use the mind to think.

You can muse at what happened, what is scheduled and what maybe will happen.

The mind is the manifestations of thought, perception, emotion, determination, memory and imagination that takes place within the brain.

Mind is often used to refer especially to the thought processes of reason.

The mind is the awareness of consciousness we know, the ability to control what we do, and know what we are doing and why.

It is the ability to understand.

Animal are able to interpret their environments, but not understand them.

Whereas human are able to understand what happens around them, even if not the scientific reasoning for it, and therefore adapt.

The mind made humans capable to solve complex logical problem which differentiates us than other living beings.

Logic makes us understand that things are not as what they seem.

Our ability to analyze  situations makes it possible to develop solutions to problems and lead us toward practical solutions.

We may not be able to see in the ultraviolet range, but we may design instruments to do so.

We may not be able to see atoms, but we can design experiments that enable us to know their properties.

Each stage of scientific advancement has usually been made by trying to reach a logical conclusion consistent with our observations.

We no longer believe in demons as the cause of disease.

We now believe in viruses, bacteria, genetic defects, and environmental pollution as the real causes of disease.

Our irrational and unfounded "superstitions" have given way to "knowledge".

Difference Between Lending and Financing

Lets deal with lending first.

A bank or even your neighbour can lend you money.

You may or may not have to put up collateral to secure the loan.

Say, you borrow $100 from your mate and promise to repay the $100 in 2 weeks time . He may ask you to give him something of similar value that he can "hold" until you repay him, this is collateral.

He is not interested in why you want the $100.

He just wants his money back in 2 weeks or he will sell your collateral and recover his $100 loan to you.

In financing, you buy a specific item usually with a specific interest rate over usually a specific time frame.

The best example here may be a car or house or similar asset.

If you default (miss payments) before the end of the payment period, the person / bank that financed your specific asset can (within reason) take away the specific asset that you financed and sell it to recover his / their debt.

So, in a nutshell, financing (often called asset based financing) is the funding for a specific item and lending is generally non specific i.e. simply a loan

Difference Between LCD and TFT

Liquid Crystal Displays or LCDs were created as an alternative to big and bulky CRT displays.

They were energy efficient, thin, and light.

But problems plagued earlier LCD models and made them far too inferior to CRT displays.

As a remedy, traditional LCD construction methods were adapted to improve the performance of these diplays.

TFT or Thin Film Transistor was the solution they found.

Instead of the traditional method of producing silicon transistors in wafers, TFT elements are deposited directly to the glass substrate.

The new method of producing the screen had a few immediate improvements.

TFT made it possible to reduce the crosstalk between individual pixels resulting in a significant improvement in image quality.

Crosstalk is when the signal of adjacent pixels affect the operation of the pixel.

This deviates the brightness of pixels, making it brighter or dimmer than it was intended to be.

TFT also solved, or at least minimized, the inherent problem of LCD that made it unusable for a lot of applications.

LCD screens used to have a very high response time and it was not capable of reproducing fast motion.

This problem made gaming and watching movies on these displays pretty terrible.

The small transistor elements in a TFT display requires a smaller amount of charge to change its state.

The lower charge needed translates directly to a faster response time.

As development continued on TFT displays, the response time became lower and lower until LCDs were almost competitive with CRTs with respect to response time.

TFT was so successful that it became the standard in producing LCD screens.

Today, all the LCDs being made are built with TFT.

Even the newer screens being developed that use LEDs still utilize a TFT layer to drive the display.

TFT might be totally replaced in the future by a superior technology but for now, it is the dominant element in all LCDs.

Summary:

1. LCD is a class of displays that uses transistors to create an image while TFT is one of the methods of creating an LCD

2. Instead of the traditional semiconductor creation process, TFT elements are directly deposited into a substrate that is usually made of glass

3. Displays made with TFT produces better images and are less prone to crosstalk compared to traditional LCD

4. TFT elements require a smaller amount of charge to activate allowing faster screen redraws

5. All LCD displays being produced today are now made with TFT.

Difference Between Drug and Medicine

From chemistry point of view,

There is no distinction between the terms drugs and medicines,

I.e., all drugs are medicines

And

All medicines are drugs.

However, our society and law make a clear-cut distinction between these two terms as follows:

A medicine is a chemical substance which cures the disease,

Is safe to use,

Has negligible toxicity

And

Does not addiction.

In contrast, a drug is a chemical substance which also cures the disease

But

Is habit forming,

Causes addiction

And

Has serious side effects.

Difference Between Ice and Snow

Though ice and snow are both made up of water,

There is a difference between the two.

Snow is nothing but the frozen atmospheric vapour which falls in winters on earth as light flakes whereas ice is simply frozen water.

Another difference is that snow fall can be seen only in winters at areas of high altitudes and places near the Polar regions

Whereas ice can be seen in any season of the year in our refrigerator.

Difference Between Duty and Responsibility

Duty is a moral commitment to something or someone,

Whereas responsibility is a condition of being responsible.

According to Cicero, duties come from four sources.

Duty is a result of human beings, one's particular place, one's character and one's own moral expectations.

His philosophy of duty has been depicted in his famous work On Duty.

As duty refers to moral commitment,

It denotes an active feeling for doing something.

Once a person engages himself with some duty or if he has been entrusted with a duty, then that person fully commits himself to it.

In the case of duty, the person will be involved in activity without any self-interest.

As a citizen of a country, a person has many duties to perform.

It is his duty to adhere to the constitution.

Responsibility can be termed as an ability to act at one's own will,

Without any supervision.

It is the obligation to successfully complete an assigned task.

In responsibility,

A person takes upon the duty to compete the task and to make the task a success.

In responsibility,

A person is solely responsible for the entire task and its outcome.

In case of responsibility, he takes the ownership of the entire task.

Responsibility can also be explained as a set of instructions in life that one has to follow.

It is the responsibility of the parents to give good education to their children.