What's the difference between abridged and compendious?

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).

Compendious


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The NMR results of synthetic solutions and commercial preparations were compared with those obtained by a published relative NMR procedure and a compendial titrimetric method.
  • (2) Data on the types of analytical methods used in assessing the purity of compendial articles will also be presented.
  • (3) All of the Becton-Dickinson syringes tested met the USP standard for light transmittance, and none of the syringes from Baxa or Solopak met the compendial standards.
  • (4) Comparative analytical data between this procedure and compendial methodology are presented.
  • (5) After a novel as compendiously ambitious as yours, I can imagine you have earned a rest.
  • (6) Super disintegrants that complied with the same compendial specifications, but were manufactured by different companies, behaved similarly in promoting tablet dissolution.
  • (7) The HPLC method was compared to compendial procedures for thymol bulk substance and halothane products.
  • (8) This procedure was applied to 11 different mercurial compounds in various pharmaceutical preparations and offers excellent sensitivity with respect to presently used compendial assays.
  • (9) Although pilocarpine salts in ophthalmic solution decompose into isopilocarpine and pilocarpic acid under various conditions of storage, an amount of pilocarpine is maintained that is within the compendial limits.
  • (10) The assay results are comparable to those obtained by the compendial liquid chromatographic method.
  • (11) The data support the position that the higher agitation rate of 100 rpm is not necessary for a quality control procedure or a compendial standard for the products tested.
  • (12) This paper briefly summarizes the principles of microscopic image analysis and discusses its application in concert with optimized sampling and counting techniques as an improved compendial methodology.
  • (13) Amnesty International has now produced compendious evidence of mass abduction and detention, beating and routine torture , killings and atrocities by the rebel militias Britain, France and the US have backed for the last eight months – supposedly to stop exactly those kind of crimes being committed by the Gaddafi regime.
  • (14) We only have Gide's word that he had the last word in this exchange way but it reminds us that what we are dealing with here is not simply a resource but a compendious work of literature.
  • (15) This procedure is applied to determine these drugs in certain formulations and the results compare favourably to compendial methods.
  • (16) Four commercial samples of the single ingredient were tested; results compared favorably with the compendial method.
  • (17) The procedure was successfully applied to a number of commercial samples; the results agreed well with those for compendial method.
  • (18) The determination of Edrophonium Chloride Injection involves a modification of a procedure for phenylephrine and offers an alternative to the compendial assay.
  • (19) The specificity of the system in relation to several compendial drug analogs also is reported.
  • (20) A test for skewness should be included in compendial standards.