What's the difference between abridge and abridgment?

Abridge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
  • (v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
  • (v. t.) To deprive; to cut off; -- followed by of, and formerly by from; as, to abridge one of his rights.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two examples are presented from published literature which illustrate some problems encountered with the use of the abridged census method.
  • (2) This is an abridged version of a paper delivered in Tel Aviv by two American nurses.
  • (3) Abridged versions of existing inventories are very practical in these instances.
  • (4) Transgenic embryos harboring an abridged lab gene are able to overcome the embryonic lethality associated with the loss of lab function and survive to adulthood.
  • (5) Using these alternative, abridged life tables were devised, and these in turn were used to draw up a table showing the life expectancy at birth that would result from realization of each alternative.
  • (6) He tweets as @SolomonADersso This is an abridged version of Solomon's essay 'This question of African unity - 50 years after the founding of the OAU.'
  • (7) The abstract, under a multitude of names, such as hypothesis, marginalia, abridgement, extract, digest, précis, resumé, and summary, has a long history, one which is concomitant with advancing scholarship.
  • (8) Hamburger, entitled 'The Current Point of View of the Theory of Natural Immunity', which is also published in a slightly abridged version in this issue of Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde.
  • (9) It generalizes the conventional discrete (abridged and complete) life tables into a continuous life table that can produce life-table functions at any age and develops a unified method of life-table construction that simplifies the disparate laborious procedures used in the traditional approach of constructing abridged and complete life tables.
  • (10) The methodology is designed to determine how departures in sexual orientation and social sex-role are the basis for the abridgment of civil liberties.
  • (11) An abridged somatization construct (the Somatic Symptom Index) derived from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule's somatization disorder items was tested on community epidemiological samples to examine its prevalence, risk factors, and predictive value.
  • (12) The results suggest that the DSM-IV somatoform disorders section should include somatization disorder, an abridged definition of somatization disorder often associated with anxiety and depression, as well as a type of somatization associated with an adjustment disorder.
  • (13) This abridged account of a report to the British Medical Research Council describes a long-term investigation of 1,503 subcapital fractures of the femur, almost all of which were treated by reduction and internal fixation.
  • (14) This paper is an abridged version of the author's Submarine Medical Officer qualification thesis.
  • (15) We found that 4.4% of the respondents met criteria for this abridged cutoff score of somatization, whereas only 0.03% of the respondents met criteria for the full DSM-III somatization disorder diagnosis.
  • (16) The abridged census estimator, also known as Weinberg's shorter method, is a device used to estimate lifetime incidence from the observed age distribution of a population at risk coupled with data on the current prevalence of a mental disorder.
  • (17) This scale was largely composed of edited and abridged gender items from Part A of Freund et al.
  • (18) In the US, by contrast, despite having been built out of a distrust of rulers, everything is held to be potentially publishable - as embodied in its First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…").
  • (19) Lister Hill Center is concerned with developing a computerized information system, with a data base consisting of an expanded Abridged Index Medicus, using part of a large computer system, and connecting this system to the TWX network.
  • (20) Seven essays in this issue of the Hastings Center Report defend civil disobedience as a legitimate form of protest against terrible injustices: legalized abortion (G. Leber); abridgement of women's reproductive rights (S. Davis); government policy toward persons with AIDS (H. Spiers and A. Novick); abuse of the rights of animals (S. Siegel, C. Jackson, and P. Singer).

Abridgment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.
  • (n.) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation.
  • (n.) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two examples are presented from published literature which illustrate some problems encountered with the use of the abridged census method.
  • (2) This is an abridged version of a paper delivered in Tel Aviv by two American nurses.
  • (3) Abridged versions of existing inventories are very practical in these instances.
  • (4) Transgenic embryos harboring an abridged lab gene are able to overcome the embryonic lethality associated with the loss of lab function and survive to adulthood.
  • (5) Using these alternative, abridged life tables were devised, and these in turn were used to draw up a table showing the life expectancy at birth that would result from realization of each alternative.
  • (6) He tweets as @SolomonADersso This is an abridged version of Solomon's essay 'This question of African unity - 50 years after the founding of the OAU.'
  • (7) The abstract, under a multitude of names, such as hypothesis, marginalia, abridgement, extract, digest, précis, resumé, and summary, has a long history, one which is concomitant with advancing scholarship.
  • (8) Hamburger, entitled 'The Current Point of View of the Theory of Natural Immunity', which is also published in a slightly abridged version in this issue of Tijdschrift voor Diergeneeskunde.
  • (9) It generalizes the conventional discrete (abridged and complete) life tables into a continuous life table that can produce life-table functions at any age and develops a unified method of life-table construction that simplifies the disparate laborious procedures used in the traditional approach of constructing abridged and complete life tables.
  • (10) The methodology is designed to determine how departures in sexual orientation and social sex-role are the basis for the abridgment of civil liberties.
  • (11) An abridged somatization construct (the Somatic Symptom Index) derived from the Diagnostic Interview Schedule's somatization disorder items was tested on community epidemiological samples to examine its prevalence, risk factors, and predictive value.
  • (12) The results suggest that the DSM-IV somatoform disorders section should include somatization disorder, an abridged definition of somatization disorder often associated with anxiety and depression, as well as a type of somatization associated with an adjustment disorder.
  • (13) This abridged account of a report to the British Medical Research Council describes a long-term investigation of 1,503 subcapital fractures of the femur, almost all of which were treated by reduction and internal fixation.
  • (14) This paper is an abridged version of the author's Submarine Medical Officer qualification thesis.
  • (15) We found that 4.4% of the respondents met criteria for this abridged cutoff score of somatization, whereas only 0.03% of the respondents met criteria for the full DSM-III somatization disorder diagnosis.
  • (16) The abridged census estimator, also known as Weinberg's shorter method, is a device used to estimate lifetime incidence from the observed age distribution of a population at risk coupled with data on the current prevalence of a mental disorder.
  • (17) This scale was largely composed of edited and abridged gender items from Part A of Freund et al.
  • (18) In the US, by contrast, despite having been built out of a distrust of rulers, everything is held to be potentially publishable - as embodied in its First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…").
  • (19) Lister Hill Center is concerned with developing a computerized information system, with a data base consisting of an expanded Abridged Index Medicus, using part of a large computer system, and connecting this system to the TWX network.
  • (20) Seven essays in this issue of the Hastings Center Report defend civil disobedience as a legitimate form of protest against terrible injustices: legalized abortion (G. Leber); abridgement of women's reproductive rights (S. Davis); government policy toward persons with AIDS (H. Spiers and A. Novick); abuse of the rights of animals (S. Siegel, C. Jackson, and P. Singer).