What's the difference between alias and pseudonym?

Alias


Definition:

  • (adv.) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
  • (adv.) At another time.
  • (n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
  • (n.) Another name; an assumed name.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The interdisciplinary evaluation of risks from carcinogens utilizes, inter alia, data on the activities of the compounds in short-term assays.
  • (2) Mandela then returned to Liliesleaf farm, the secret base of the ANC's military wing in Rivonia, Johannesburg, where he wore blue overalls to pose as a caretaker under the alias David Motsamayi.
  • (3) The method was specific and enabled brucella infection to be differentiated, inter alia, from Q-fever infection.
  • (4) The US Drug Enforcement Administration had offered a $5m reward for his capture, saying he was wanted on drug-trafficking charges, but listed “Omar” as an alias and his given name as Alejandro.
  • (5) Caribou soon became a surprisingly hard-gigging unit, supporting Radiohead on their 2012 arena jaunt at the same time as Dan was touring the world’s premier techno clubs under his dance alias Daphni.
  • (6) Evidence for this sequence of events comes, inter alia, from angiograms of patients with unstable angina and developing myocardial infarction.
  • (7) Repressive responses to inter alia drug use, rural crop production and non-violent, low-level drug offences pose unnecessary risks to public health and create significant barriers to the full and effective realisation of the right to health, with a particularly devastating impact on minorities, those living in situations of rural and urban poverty, and people who use drugs,” he says.
  • (8) 2. WHO has a constitutional mandate inter alia to "develop, establish and promote international standards with respect to biological, pharmaceutical and similar products."
  • (9) It may also be used, inter alia, to denote the primary content of unconscious mental processes, as the mental representative and corollary of instinctual urges, and as based on or identical with Freud's postulated 'hallucinatory wish-fulfillment' and his 'primary introjection', which reflects Melanie Klein's extension of Freud's concept.
  • (10) This fact is indicated (inter alia) by studies of identical twins demonstrating that the degree of efficiency with which the body uses excess dietary energy for fat storage is, to a considerable extent, inherited.
  • (11) Inter alia pregnant women and children are advised wholly to refrain from the consumption of liver and liver products.
  • (12) This is demonstrated, inter alia, by the manner in which the duty schedule is handled and how the team deals with the sickness of a team member.
  • (13) Last year documents revealed by the Guardian showed that Miskiw had signed a contract with Mulcaire, using an alias, offering him £7,000 to bring in a story about the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, Gordon Taylor, whose voicemail was then intercepted; and that one of Coulson's news reporters, Ross Hindley, had emailed transcripts of 35 intercepted voicemails involving Gordon Taylor for the attention of the chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck.
  • (14) The increased concern about the quality of medical services evidenced by, inter alia, the growing attention to quality of Peer Review Organizations.
  • (15) The State Department alleges that some of the passports were issued fraudulently, sometimes claiming the individual had another name or alias before coming to the US.
  • (16) Protein X alias complement S-protein was isolated by dissociation from purified XC5b-9 (fluid-phase terminal C5b-9) complexes with 250 mM deoxycholate and subsequent sucrose density gradient centrifugation and Sephacryl gel chromatography.
  • (17) One main pathway from the parent macrocycle involves oxidative transformations and leads eventually to protohaem required inter alia for haemoglobin and myoglobin.
  • (18) Health research (applied), in turn, addresses the nature and occurrence of phenomena of health (their frequency)--in relation to type of health care, inter alia.
  • (19) One case reflects the development of left bundle branch block due to bilateral post-divisional block which inter alia permits the study of left bundle branch block in the presence of acute myocardial infarction.
  • (20) S-Adenosylmethionine is involved in, inter alia, the methylation of a small percentage of cytosine bases of DNA.

Pseudonym


Definition:

  • (n.) A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In case you've managed to avoid gatherings where it's been discussed (which is a long shot, but perhaps your friends are hard, angry, silent drinkers, in which case, you've got lucky), this involves combining the name of your first pet with your mother's maiden name to create the pseudonym you'd use if you were a porn star.
  • (2) Her celebrated experiment with a pseudonym as a demonstration of the hurdles facing unknown writers being just one example.
  • (3) The Long Walk is one of the famed "Bachman Books" , novels that King wrote before he was published in his own name, and that were only published (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) in the wake of the success of Salem's Lot .
  • (4) Pseudonyms are used instead of the participants' names.
  • (5) When he discovered his phone had been tapped, Sarkozy allegedly obtained another phone under the pseudonym Paul Bismuth, to talk to his lawyer.
  • (6) In reality, the only harm that could ever come the way of these pseudonymous CIA agents would be in the form of more lawsuits from victims, given that the Justice Department gave up trying to prosecute any of them, and the White House gave up on even a modicum of accountability a while ago.
  • (7) According to Croatia's Zagreb newspaper Jutarnji List, Mladic had been living under the pseudonym Milorad Komadic.
  • (8) Bhagwan Chowdhry, a professor of finance at UCLA, last month suggested nominating Nakamoto for the 2016 Nobel prize in economics in recognition of his innovation, but Nakamoto’s pseudonymous identity meant he was ineligible.
  • (9) Mohammad Moslawi is the pseudonym of an Iraqi journalist working in Mosul
  • (10) Shortly afterwards, under a pseudonym, the informant admitted 20 serious offences and asked for 31 more to be taken into consideration.
  • (11) When asked what his plans are, he smiles and says: “I am getting married in April.” • Dani Patteran is a pseudonym
  • (12) Theresa May should be able to exercise sensible border control and stop him holding these seminars in our country.” The Change.org petition, drawn up by a city worker using the pseudonym Caroline Charles to protect herself from abuse, says Blanc and his association Real Social Dynamics (RSD) promote “sexist, racist and criminal approaches to women”.
  • (13) Now he lives in a safe house run by a Honduran charity, and asked only to be identified with a pseudonym.
  • (14) Next month, the former leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, often known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, will make his political comeback by fronting the relaunch of the UK arm of Pegida, the German anti-Islam organisation whose provocative rhetoric has prompted attacks on refugees .
  • (15) Elizabeth Sigmund was a friend of Sylvia Plath's and, along with her husband David, a dedicatee of The Bell Jar when Plath first published it under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas.
  • (16) One of which he is particularly proud is from Becky Hope, the pseudonym of a social worker whose memoir All in a Day's Work chronicles her years in child protection.
  • (17) Faith films may not be critically credible, yet, but some of the same people work on them, pseudonymously, as do on hipper indie movies.
  • (18) Three polyphosphorylated dinucleosides given the pseudonyms of HS3, HS2, and HS1 that were erroneously described as diguanosine polyphosphates (LéJohn, H. B., Cameron, L. E., McNaughton, D. R. & Klassen, G. R. (1975) Biochem, Biophys, Res, Commun.
  • (19) The biggest fight seems to be over the CIA’s efforts to black out the pseudonyms of CIA agents used in the report.
  • (20) By this time, he had begun to publish, at first pseudonymously, articles and reviews which, among other things, did much to draw attention to the burgeoning Soviet school of English 17th-century studies.