Degree vs. Career: What's the Difference?

One of a series of steps in a process, course, or progression; a stage

A chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation.

A step in a direct hereditary line of descent or ascent

The general course or progression of one's working life or one's professional achievements

Relative social or official rank, dignity, or position.

A path or course, as of the sun through the heavens.

Relative intensity or amount, as of a quality or attribute

Speed

The extent or measure of a state of being, an action, or a relation

Doing what one does as a permanent occupation or lifework

A unit division of a temperature scale.

To move forward at high speed, often with minimal control

(Mathematics) A planar unit of angular measure equal in magnitude to 1/360 of a complete revolution.

One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.

A unit of latitude or longitude, equal to 1/360 of a great circle.

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.

The greatest sum of the exponents of the variables in a term of a polynomial or polynomial equation.

(archaic) Speed.

The exponent of the derivative of highest order in a differential equation in standard form.

A jouster's path during a joust.

An academic title given by a college or university to a student who has completed a course of study

(obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.

A similar title conferred as an honorary distinction.

(falconry) The flight of a hawk.

(Law) A division or classification of a specific crime according to its seriousness

(obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.

A classification of the severity of an injury, especially a burn

To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.

(Grammar) One of the forms used in the comparison of adjectives and adverbs. For example, tall is the positive degree, taller the comparative degree, and tallest the superlative degree of the adjective tall.

Synonym of serial

One of the seven notes of a diatonic scale.

A race course: the ground run over.

A space or line of the staff.

A running; full speed; a rapid course.

A stage of proficiency or qualification in a course of study, now especially an award bestowed by a university or, in some countries, a college, as a certification of academic achievement. (In the United States, can include secondary schools.)

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.

(geometry) A unit of measurement of angle equal to 360 of a circle's circumference.

The flight of a hawk.

(physics) A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.

To move or run rapidly.

(algebra) The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.

The particular occupation for which you are trained

The dimensionality of a field extension.

The general progression of your working or professional life;

(graph theory) The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.

Move headlong at high speed;

(logic) The number of logical connectives in a formula.

(surveying) The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.

(geography) A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.

(grammar) Any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.

A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.

An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.

A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.

(genealogy) A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.

One's relative state or experience; way, manner.

The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.

A step, stair, or staircase.

One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.

The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.

Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.

Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; also, (informal) the diploma provided by an educational institution attesting to the achievement of that rank; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.; to hang one's degrees on the office wall.

A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.

Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.

State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.

A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.

A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.

A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality;

A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process;

An award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study;

A unit of temperature on a specified scale;

A measure for arcs and angles;

The highest power of a term or variable

The seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime);