What's the difference between abridged and literary?

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).

Literary


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation.
  • (a.) Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with literature as a profession; connected with literature or with men of letters; as, a literary man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
  • (2) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
  • (3) The cytologic findings can be considered to be satisfactory in regard to literary data.
  • (4) Wood will play Brinnin, an American poet and literary scenester who was friends with Thomas as well as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.
  • (5) It became his task to use his literary art in an opposite way to Hesse, even though he despaired of what literature might achieve or of the capacity of rich Europeans to change.
  • (6) But we can add that there is no competition, from the economical viewpoint, between the post-oedipal sublimation, type political involvement, and the preoedipal sublimation, type literary creation.
  • (7) Literary agent Andrew Kidd said: "I have nothing against readability but some books are more challenging.
  • (8) He moved on to Tunis and Paris, and became editor-in-chief of the influential literary review Al-Karmel.
  • (9) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
  • (10) She sent the finished manuscript to Elaine Greene , a London literary agent.
  • (11) She also won four Logies for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill in 2013, the George Munster award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award – for stories on people smuggling and the culture of rugby league.
  • (12) Every time he felt the futility of his work for the NAACP, he’d finger the well-worn pages, and it would strengthen his resolve.” This is how classics of this calibre work their way into the literary bloodstream.
  • (13) Like many ambitious young writers, he sought both popular success and literary acclaim.
  • (14) His favourite literary genres as a child were detective stories and Greek myths.
  • (15) But also, in the sense that they crossed over the line of the acceptable literary and visual culture and brought the Mexican modern movement into being.
  • (16) We arrive also to the conclusion that, in contradiction with what we have seen in the literature overview, it seems that narcissistic personality disorders have no negative effect on literary creation.
  • (17) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
  • (18) You may not know it, but literary ghosts are everywhere.
  • (19) The literary data on the reexamination of the holotype are given.
  • (20) Despite our difference in generation, gender and literary purpose, it was clear to me that he and I were both working with some of the same aesthetic influences: film, surrealist art and poetry; Freud's avant-garde theories of the unconscious.