different between apprentice vs puppet

English

Alternative forms

• apprentise (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English apprentice, apprentesse, apprentyse, apprentis, from Old French aprentis, plural of aprentif, from Old French aprendre (verb), Late Latin apprend?, from Classical Latin apprehend?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p??nt?s/

Noun

apprentice (plural apprentices)

1. A trainee, especially in a skilled trade.
2. (historical) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a tradesperson, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
3. (dated) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro or newbie.

Translations

See also

• journeyman
• masterman
• master
• trainee

Verb

apprentice (third-person singular simple present apprentices, present participle apprenticing, simple past and past participle apprenticed)

1. (transitive) To put under the care and supervision of a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

   His father had apprenticed him to a silk merchant.

   He was apprenticed to a local employer.

2. (transitive) To be an apprentice to.

   Joe apprenticed three different photographers before setting up his own studio.

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References

• apprentice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “apprentice” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

English

Etymology

From Middle English popet, probably from, though attested earlier than, Middle French poupette, diminutive of poupée (cf. also Medieval Latin *pupata), ultimately derived from a Latin pupa (“doll, puppet; girl”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?p??t, IPA^(key): /?p?p?t/
• Rhymes: -?p?t
• Hyphenation: pup?pet

Noun

puppet (plural puppets)

1. Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
2. (figuratively) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
3. (obsolete) A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
4. (engineering) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.

Derived terms

Related terms

• marionette
• muppet

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