Concept vs. Precept — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Concept and Precept
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Definitions
Concept
Concepts are defined as abstract ideas or general notions that occur in the mind, in speech, or in thought. They are understood to be the fundamental building blocks of thoughts and beliefs.
Precept
A precept (from the Latin: præcipere, to teach) is a commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action.
Concept
An abstract idea
Structuralism is a difficult concept
The concept of justice
Precept
A general rule intended to regulate behaviour or thought
The legal precept of being innocent until proven guilty
Children learn far more by example than by precept
Concept
A general idea or understanding of something
The concept of inertia.
The concept of free will.
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Precept
A writ or warrant
The Commissioner issued precepts requiring the companies to provide information
Concept
A plan or original idea
The original concept was for a building with 12 floors.
Precept
An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf
The precept required a supplementary rate of 6.1p in the pound
Concept
A unifying idea or theme, especially for a product or service
A new restaurant concept.
Precept
A rule or principle prescribing a particular course of action or conduct.
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Concept
Having an experimental or strikingly different design, especially to test or demonstrate new features
A concept car.
Precept
(Law) A direction or order issued by an authority; a writ, command, or process.
Concept
An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
Precept
A rule or principle, especially one governing personal conduct.
Precept guides, but example draws.
Concept
Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
Precept
(legal) A written command, especially a demand for payment.
Concept
(generic programming) A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
Precept
(UK) An order issued by one local authority to another specifying the rate of tax to be charged on its behalf.
Concept
To conceive; to dream up
Precept
A rate or tax set by a precept.
Concept
An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.
Precept
To act as a preceptor; to teach a physician-in-training by supervising their clinical practice.
Concept
An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
Precept
To teach (something) by precepts.
Precept
Any commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; esp., a command respecting moral conduct; an injunction; a rule.
For precept must be upon precept.
No arts are without their precepts.
Precept
A command in writing; a species of writ or process.
Precept
To teach by precepts.
Precept
Rule of personal conduct
Precept
A doctrine that is taught;
The teachings of religion
He believed all the Christian precepts
