different between tutor vs direct

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tut?/
• • Homophones: tooter, Tudor
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tju?t?/
• Rhymes: -u?t?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin t?tor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.

Alternative forms

• tutour (archaic)

Noun

tutor (plural tutors, feminine tutoress)

1. One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.

2. (Britain) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
3. (obsolete or Quebec law) One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.

Synonyms

• (one who teaches): preceptor

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

1. (transitive) To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group.

2. (transitive, archaic) To treat with authority or sternness.

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “tutor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• tutor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tutor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of Demonic tutor, name of an early Magic: The Gathering card with this effect.

Noun

tutor (plural tutors)

1. (collectible card games) A card that allows one to search one's deck for one or more other cards.

Verb

tutor (third-person singular simple present tutors, present participle tutoring, simple past and past participle tutored)

1. (collectible card games) To fetch a card from one's deck.

Anagrams

• Routt, Trout, trout

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tutor.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tu?to/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tu?to?/

Noun

tutor m (plural tutors, feminine tutora)

1. tutor (teacher)
2. guardian (person responsible for another)

Related terms

• tutela
• tutoria

Further reading

• “tutor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

Noun

tutor

1. tutor (person)

Declension

Anagrams

• rutot, rutto, torut, turot

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tu?.tor/, [?t?u?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tu.tor/, [?t?u?t??r]

Etymology 1

From tueor +? -tor, via the old past participle t?tus (later replaced by tuitus).

Noun

t?tor m (genitive t?t?ris, feminine t?tr?x); third declension

1. watcher, protector, defender
2. guardian (of minors)
3. tutor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

From tueor +? -t?, via the old past participle t?tus (later replaced by tuitus).

Verb

t?tor (present infinitive t?t?r? or t?t?rier, perfect active t?t?tus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. I guard, protect, defend

Conjugation

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested for this verb.

Descendants

References

• tutor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tutor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tutor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tutor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tutor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

From English tutor, from Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur, from Latin t?tor, from tueor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu.t?r/

Noun

tutor m pers

1. tutor (university officer responsible for students in a particular hall)
2. (archaic) tutor (one who teaches another in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) tutorski

Further reading

• tutor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tutor in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor, tutorem.

Noun

tutor m (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. tutor (one who teaches in a one-on-one or small-group interaction)
2. (law) guardian (person legally responsible for a minor or incompetent person)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tû?tor/
• Hyphenation: tu?tor

Noun

t?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. tutor
2. guardian

Declension

References

• “tutor” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tutor, tutorem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?to?/, [t?u?t?o?]

Noun

tutor m or f (plural tutores, feminine tutora, feminine plural tutoras)

1. guardian (person responsible for another)
2. tutor (teacher)

Related terms

• tutela
• tutoría

Further reading

• “tutor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

tutor

1. indefinite plural of tuta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?rectus, perfect passive participle of d?rig? (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + reg? (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d(a)????kt/, /d????kt/, /da??????kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: di?rect

Adjective

direct (comparative more direct, superlative most direct)

1. Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
2. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end.

3. Straightforward; sincere.
4. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.

   • He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.

   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     a direct and avowed interference with elections

5. In the line of descent; not collateral.

6. (astronomy) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; said of the motion of a celestial body.
7. (political science) Pertaining to, or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates.

8. (aviation, travel) having a single flight number.

Synonyms

• (proceeding uninterrupted): immediate
• (express, plain, unambiguous): explicit, patent, univocal; see also Thesaurus:explicit

Antonyms

• indirect

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

direct (comparative more direct, superlative most direct)

1. Directly.
   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 346:

     Presumably Mary is to carry messages that she, Anne, is too delicate to convey direct.

Verb

direct (third-person singular simple present directs, present participle directing, simple past and past participle directed)

1. To manage, control, steer.

   to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army

2. To aim (something) at (something else).

   They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.

   He directed his question to the room in general.

3. To point out or show to (somebody) the right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way.

   He directed me to the left-hand road.

   • 1882, John Lubbock, Flowers, Fruits and Leaves

     the next points to which I will direct your attention

4. To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order.

   She directed them to leave immediately.
5. (dated) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent.

   to direct a letter

Derived terms

• co-direct, codirect
• misdirect
• redirect

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Credit, credit, triced

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French direct, from Latin d?r?ctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?r?kt/
• Hyphenation: di?rect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Adjective

direct (comparative directer, superlative directst)

1. direct, immediate
2. direct, blunt, frank

Inflection

Adverb

direct

1. immediately

Synonyms

• onmiddellijk
• meteen
• rechtstreeks

Derived terms

• drek

Descendants

• Afrikaans: direk
• ? Papiamentu: dirèkt

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.??kt/
• Homophones: directe, directes, directs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin d?rectus. Doublet of droit, which was inherited.

Adjective

direct (feminine singular directe, masculine plural directs, feminine plural directes)

1. direct

Etymology 2

From directement.

Adverb

direct

1. (colloquial) directly

   Si t'as pas envie d'y aller, dis-le direct.

   • 'If you don't want to go, say it straight up.'

Derived terms

Related terms

• diriger
• directeur
• direction

See also

• droit

Anagrams

• crédit
• décrit
• dicter

Further reading

• “direct” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?rectus, perfect passive participle of d?rig?, d?rigere (“straighten, direct”). Compare the inherited drait, drouait.

Adjective

direct m

1. (Jersey) direct

Derived terms

• directément (“directly”)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French direct, Latin directus. Compare the inherited doublet drept.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?rekt/

Adjective

direct m or n (feminine singular direct?, masculine plural direc?i, feminine and neuter plural directe)

1. direct
2. head-on

Declension

Adverb

direct

1. directly
2. straight