different between thesis vs capstone

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”) and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek ????? (thésis, “arrangement, placement, setting; conclusion, position, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from ??????? (títh?mi, “to place, put, set; to put down in writing; to consider as, regard”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to do; to place, put”)) + -??? (-sis, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result) The English word is a doublet of deed.

Sense 1.1 (“proposition or statement supported by arguments”) is adopted from antithesis. Sense 1.4 (“initial stage of reasoning”) was first used by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), and later applied to the dialectical method of his countryman, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).

The plural form theses is borrowed from Latin thes?s, from Ancient Greek ?????? (théseis).

Pronunciation

• Singular:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?s?s/, (archaic) /???s?s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??is?s/
  • Rhymes: -i?s?s
  • Hyphenation: the?sis
• Plural:
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??i?si?z/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??isiz/
  • Rhymes: -i?si?z
  • Hyphenation: the?ses

Noun

thesis (plural theses)

1. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
   1. (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
   2. (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted as a requirement for a university degree; a dissertation.
   3. (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
   4. (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
2. Senses relating to music and prosody.
   1. (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.

      Antonym: arsis

   2. (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.

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References

Further reading

• arsis and thesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis, antithesis, synthesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• thesis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• thesis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Heists, Sethis, heists, shiest, shites, sithes, thises

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin thesis, from Ancient Greek ????? (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: the?sis

Noun

thesis f (plural theses or thesissen, diminutive thesisje n)

1. Dated form of these.

   Synonyms: dissertatie, proefschrift

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (thésis, “a proposition, a statement, a thing laid down, thesis in rhetoric, thesis in prosody”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?t?e.sis/, [?t???s??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?te.sis/, [?t???s?is]

Noun

thesis f (genitive thesis); third declension

1. thesis

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

References

• thesis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thesis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Middle English capston; equivalent to cap +? stone.

Noun

capstone (plural capstones)

1. Any of the stones making up the top layer of a wall; a coping stone.
2. (figuratively) A crowning achievement, culmination or finishing touch.
   • 1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Far from the Maddening Girls, chapter 5

     “You see, I’ve never had a girl friend,” I added, by way of topping the obelisk of silliness with the capstone of fatuity.

   • 1969, NASA, The Post-Apollo Space Program: Directions for the Future

     Success of the Apollo program has been the capstone to a series of significant accomplishments for the United States in space in a broad spectrum of manned and unmanned exploration missions and in the application of space techniques for the benefit of man.

Translations

Synonyms

• capestane, copestone

Verb

capstone (third-person singular simple present capstones, present participle capstoning, simple past and past participle capstoned)

1. (transitive) To complete as a crowning achievement; to top off.
   • 2012, Keith Brooke, Strange Divisions and Alien Territories (page 23)

     Capstoning a decade's worth of linked short stories, The Quiet War (2008) was a vivid and tense novel about a solar system sliding into conflict.

2. (transitive, US, military, informal) To train in the Capstone Military Leadership Program.
   • 1981, Army Reserve Magazine (volumes 27-28, page 24)

     “Capstoned” units are now able to train and plan in peacetime with the command with which they will fight in wartime.

See also

• keystone

Anagrams

• caponets, opencast, patonces, potances