Literature vs. Document — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Literature and Document
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Definitions
Literature
Literature broadly is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed.
Document
A document is a written, drawn, presented, or memorialized representation of thought, often the manifestation of non-fictional, as well as fictional, content. The word originates from the Latin Documentum, which denotes a "teaching" or "lesson": the verb doceō denotes "to teach".
Literature
Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit
A great work of literature
Document
A piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record.
Literature
The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
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Document
Record (something) in written, photographic, or other form
The photographer spent years documenting the lives of miners
Literature
Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value
"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" (Rebecca West).
Document
A written or printed paper that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish decisive evidence or information.
Literature
The art or occupation of a literary writer.
Document
Something, such as a recording or a photograph, that can be used to furnish evidence or information.
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Literature
The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field
Medical literature.
Document
A writing that contains information.
Literature
Printed material
Collected all the available literature on the subject.
Document
(Computers) A piece of work created with an application, as with a word processor.
Literature
(Music) All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble
The symphonic literature.
Document
(Computers) A computer file that is not an executable file and contains data for use by applications.
Literature
The body of all written works.
Document
Something, especially a material substance such as a coin bearing a revealing symbol or mark, that serves as proof or evidence.
Literature
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
Document
To furnish with a document or documents.
Literature
(usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
Document
To methodically record the details of
"I had thought long and logically about ... how to document the patterns of dolphin behavior" (Diana Reiss).
Literature
Written fiction of a high standard.
However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
Document
To support (an assertion or claim, for example) with evidence or decisive information.
Literature
Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
Document
To support (statements in a book, for example) with written references or citations; annotate.
Literature
The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
Document
An original or official paper used as the basis, proof, or support of anything else, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information pertinent to such proof or support.
Literature
The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres.
Document
Any material substance on which the information is represented by writing.
Literature
The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary work.
The origin of all positive science and philosophy, as well as of all literature and art, in the forms in which they exist in civilized Europe, must be traced to the Greeks.
Learning thy talent is, but mine is sense.
Some gentlemen, abounding in their university erudition, fill their sermons with philosophical terms.
Document
(computing) A file that contains text.
Literature
Creative writing of recognized artistic value
Document
(obsolete) That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
Literature
The humanistic study of a body of literature;
He took a course in Russian lit
Document
(obsolete) An example for instruction or warning.
Literature
Published writings in a particular style on a particular subject;
The technical literature
One aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature
Document
To record in documents.
He documented each step of the process as he did it, which was good when the investigation occurred.
Literature
The profession or art of a writer;
Her place in literature is secure
Document
To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information.
A ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Document
That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.
Learners should not be too much crowded with a heap or multitude of documents or ideas at one time.
Document
An example for instruction or warning.
They were forth with stoned to death, as a document to others.
Document
An original or official paper relied upon as the basis, proof, or support of anything else; - in its most extended sense, including any writing, book, or other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol.
Saint Luke . . . collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic.
Document
To teach; to school.
I am finely documented by my own daughter.
Document
To furnish with documents or papers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.
Document
Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)
Document
Anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks
Document
A written account of ownership or obligation
Document
(computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using 7-bit ASCII characters
Document
Record in detail;
The parents documented every step of their child's development
Document
Support or supply with references;
Can you document your claims?
