What's the difference between abridged and brevity?

Abridged


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Abridge

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).

Brevity


Definition:

  • (n.) Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
  • (n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The other example is of a woman who had a child who died at the age of 10 and expressed no regrets, but when questioned about whether she would have continued a pregnancy knowingly aware the baby would die in 10 years, the woman replied that she could not imagine how anyone could be so strong as to bear a child knowing the brevity of its life.
  • (2) The twitch duration of the mesothoracic TCX1 acquires its adult brevity gradually over the first 5 days of adult life.
  • (3) Merits of this procedure include operative simplicity and brevity, and high rate of cure.
  • (4) And when people read these stories – so admirable in their brevity, so controlled in their emotion, so artful in their artlessness; their use, for example, of the term NAME REDACTED instead of a character’s actual name to better show what is happening to a stranger is not an individual act, but a universal crime.” In his speech, titled Does Writing Matter?
  • (5) There is a very important dwarfism with extreme micromely, macrocephalia and brevity of chest.
  • (6) Adenosine has several advantages over verapamil, including rapid onset, brevity of side effects, theoretical safety, and probable lack of placental transfer.
  • (7) Getting access to the internet is a really big deal.” Rather than looking through his media library, though, there's a better explanation for where the Facebook founder is heading: he will be aware of the brevity of the period in the limelight most tech CEOs enjoy, so at 30 he's entitled to have a mid-life crisis.
  • (8) Circadian and about 12-h (circasemidian) components are modulated by an approximately 84-h (circasemiseptan) component, which cannot be separated from trends in view of the brevity of the series.
  • (9) This assay may prove useful for the dissection of allograft rejection and tumor resistance due to its brevity, reflection of T-cell immunity, and sensitivity to host humoral factors.
  • (10) The comparison shows that the two groups lie on the same curve of ventricular function and that subjects with IHSS operate low down owing to the brevity of their sarcomeres.
  • (11) It's not an objection to brevity or humour, and no sensible person really sees a new range of possible emoji as a sign of the eschaton.
  • (12) This case is unusual in the brevity of steroid treatment prior to onset of the myelopathy, as well as the relatively small dose.
  • (13) Pretreatment with Kö 1173, however, did not influence the toxicity of ouabain infusion, implying great brevity of action.4.
  • (14) Countering the scepticism of those who suggest the universal Church's official language might not be an obvious tool for spontaneous exchange and debate, Manlio Simonetti, a professor in Christian history, told L'Osservatore Romano: "Latin … is very well suited to the brevity necessary on new social networks, even more so than English."
  • (15) Good tools exist that meet requirements such as brevity, validity, reliability, ease of administration, and ease of scoring, which make them potentially suitable for use in clinical practice.
  • (16) Despite the brevity of follow-up in some patients, many patients, including those with no definable cause, had multiple seizures prior to the administration of anticonvulsants.
  • (17) The chief advantages of the endoscopic approach are its extreme brevity of two to five minutes, lack of morbidity, and lack of threat to the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
  • (18) For the sake of brevity only the FEV1 values are shown in the figures since the other parameters all revealed a similar pattern.
  • (19) This article presents a survey of clinical research focused on these questions which, for the sake of brevity, is confined to DA metabolism.
  • (20) The List of Threatening Experiences (LTE) of Brugha et al., by virtue of its brevity, overcomes difficulties of clinical application.