What's the difference between abridged and uncut?

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).

Uncut


Definition:

  • (a.) Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding.
  • (a.) Not ground, or otherwise cut, into a certain shape; as, an uncut diamond.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Amelia Jacobsen A second successive nomination for Long, whose increasing public prominence has coincided with a political awakening that has seen her dive headlong into activism as part of groups like UK Uncut .
  • (2) 2.35pm BST UK Uncut, the pressure group, says that Chris Grayling's U-turn over legal aid tendering will not stop his proposals undermining justice.
  • (3) The world is profoundly different from how it was then.” Schneider says Momentum breaks down into trade unionists, “Bennites and post-Bennites” (who share the background of Corbyn, McDonnell and a lot of Momentum’s older activists), and the younger members, who cut their teeth with the anti-tax avoidance activists UK Uncut or the Stop The War coalition.
  • (4) However, the barrister says they could link up with others in Northern Ireland and Britain, such as the Occupy movement and UK Uncut, who are equally disgusted at the banks' behaviour during this long recession.
  • (5) The UK Uncut network, which began as a direct action campaign against corporate tax avoidance in 2010, said it would be organising a day of action on Saturday 13 April.
  • (6) The name “Sisters Uncut” is a deliberate nod to UK Uncut , the anti-cuts direct action network founded in 2010.
  • (7) Come on the UK Uncut protests this month, and also make sure you're taking to the streets on 26 March .
  • (8) "Philip Green is a tax avoider, and yet is regarded by David Cameron as an appropriate man to advise the government on austerity," said UK Uncut's spokesman, 26-year-old Daniel Garvin.
  • (9) EO: That's why UK Uncut occupies shops like Starbucks .
  • (10) It was found that: the average maximum residual intimal engineering strain in the uncut configuration was -0.082 for all nine aortas and -0.096 and -0.077 for the bovine and porcine aortas alone, respectively; the average maximum residual adventitial strain was 0.085 for all aortas, and 0.102 and 0.078 for the bovine and porcine aortas alone, respectively; an estimated average beneficial compressive stress of -0.188 X 10(5) Pa (corresponding to a strain level of -0.082) is available at the intimal level to counteract the in vivo tensile stress due to the intravascular pressure; an estimated average initial tensile stress of 0.195 X 10(5) Pa (corresponding to a strain level of 0.085) exists at the adventitial level which adds to the in vivo tensile stress due to the intravascular pressure.
  • (11) UK Uncut's previous sit-ins and occupations in the branches of tax dodgers have proved very effective in highlighting the unjust practices of big business."
  • (12) Prosecutors say the story, if true, would provide evidence that Taylor traded guns to neighbouring Sierra Leone rebels in exchange for uncut diamonds, sometimes known as blood diamonds, during that country's 1992-2002 civil war.
  • (13) The group being monitored, UK Uncut , will target high-street stores in 20 cities tomorrow, in its latest attempt to draw attention to the estimated £25bn the Treasury loses each year in tax avoidance .
  • (14) Moreover, DNA isolated from P1 phage and containing an uncut pac site was a poor substrate for in vitro cleavage until it was methylated by the Escherichia coli DNA adenine methyltransferase.
  • (15) In turn, no 2-DG was detected after treatment with uncut nerve extracts or saline.
  • (16) Activists from UK Uncut , a campaign group set up five months ago to oppose government cuts and corporate tax avoidance, will stage their first national day of action against the banks on Saturday with protesters expected to bring more than 30 high street branches of Barclays to a standstill.
  • (17) At that time no such reaction product was observed in the chondrocytes of uncut femurs.
  • (18) For Symon Hill of the pressure group Christianity Uncut , this is a betrayal of their central mission: "Speaking personally, I wasn't surprised by some of the charities involved in workfare, but I was genuinely shocked by Salvation Army," he tells me.
  • (19) At luxury grocery store Fortnum & Mason on Piccadilly, which the campaign group UK Uncut claimed was occupied by around 200 of its supporters, paint was being scrubbed from brickwork.
  • (20) UK Uncut, which has also campaigned against Vodafone, Boots and Top Shop, intends to take its first national day of action against the banks on Saturday with protesters expected to bring more than 30 high street branches of Barclays to a standstill.