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Difference Between Tradition and Values

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Tradition

A tradition is a belief or behavior (folk custom) passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of folklore, common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes (like lawyers' wigs or military officers' spurs), but the idea has also been applied to social norms such as greetings.

Values

An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.

Tradition

The passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation, especially by oral communication
Cultural practices that are preserved by tradition.

Values

Monetary or material worth
The fluctuating value of gold and silver.

Tradition

A mode of thought or behavior followed by a people continuously from generation to generation; a custom or usage
The traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.

Values

Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit
The value of an education.
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Tradition

A set of such customs and usages viewed as a coherent body of precedents influencing the present
Followed family tradition in dress and manners.

Values

Often values A principle or standard, as of behavior, that is considered important or desirable
"The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility" (Jonathan Alter).

Tradition

A precept or a body of precepts that are not written in the sacred book of a religion, such as the Bible, but are considered holy or true.

Values

Precise meaning or import, as of a word.

Tradition

A style or method of an activity or practice, especially of artistic expression, that is recognized and sometimes imitated
Satire in the tradition of Jonathan Swift.

Values

(Mathematics) A quantity or number expressed by an algebraic term.
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Tradition

A piece of folklore
"a popular medieval tradition that identified the queen of Sheba with the Blessed Virgin Mary" (Nicholas Clapp).

Values

(Music) The relative duration of a tone or rest.

Tradition

A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.

Values

The relative darkness or lightness of a color. See Table at color.

Tradition

A commonly held system. en

Values

(Linguistics) The sound quality of a letter or diphthong.

Tradition

An established or distinctive style or method:

Values

One of a series of specified values
Issued a stamp of new value.

Tradition

The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.

Values

To determine or estimate the worth or value of; appraise.

Tradition

(obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

Values

To regard highly; esteem
I value your advice.

Tradition

The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.

Values

To rate according to relative estimate of worth or desirability; evaluate
Valued health above money.

Tradition

The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.

Values

To assign a value to (a unit of currency, for example).

Tradition

Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.
Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect?
Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré.

Values

Of or relating to the practice of investing in individual securities that, according to some fundamental measure, such as book value, appear to be relatively less expensive than comparable securities.

Tradition

An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered.

Values

Relating to or consisting of principles or standards
A value system.

Tradition

That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.
Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.

Values

Inflection of value

Tradition

To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
The following story is . . . traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.

Values

Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something);
He has very conservatives values

Tradition

An inherited pattern of thought or action

Tradition

A specific practice of long standing

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