Profess vs. Professor

Professverb

(transitive) To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order. (Chiefly in passive.)

Professverb

(reflexive) To declare oneself (to be something).

Professverb

(ambitransitive) To declare; to assert, affirm.

Professverb

(transitive) To make a claim (to be something); to lay claim to (a given quality, feeling etc.), often with connotations of insincerity.

Professverb

(transitive) To declare one's adherence to (a religion, deity, principle etc.).

Professverb

(transitive) To work as a professor of; to teach.

Professverb

To claim to have knowledge or understanding of (a given area of interest, subject matter).

Professverb

To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.

Professverb

To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.

Professverb

To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

Professverb

To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

Professverb

To declare friendship.

Professverb

practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about;

Professverb

confess one's faith in, or allegiance to;

Professverb

admit, make a clean breast of;

Professverb

state freely;

Professverb

receive into a religious order or congregation

Professverb

take vows, as in religious order;

Professverb

state insincerely;

Professornoun

The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." Abbreviated Prof.

Professornoun

A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.

Professornoun

(archaic) One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.

Professornoun

A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.

Professornoun

The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.

Professornoun

One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.

Professornoun

One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.

Professornoun

someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a .