What's the difference between alphabetical and encyclopaedia?

Alphabetical


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.
  • (a.) Literal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
  • (2) In Experiment 3, four strategies, alphabetic, size, serial order, and free recall, gave similar levels of recall after 6 min, though the growth rate of the cumulative output functions differed among the strategies.
  • (3) The controls for phonologically ambiguous words were the same words in their alternative, nonambiguous alphabetic transcription.
  • (4) MDD results were improved by using longer mutliplets and, if the sequences were coding, by using the larger amino acid and codon alphabets rather than the nucleotide alphabet.
  • (5) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
  • (6) Hanging on the walls are faded posters, a world map and the alphabet in Bengali and English.
  • (7) We present a polynomial algorithm (O(n X L4), where n is the number of sequences) for generating strings related to the LCS and constructed with the sequence alphabet and an indetermination symbol.
  • (8) A dramatic improvement in the S's ability to reproduce the alphabet was observed.
  • (9) Responses from all four mechanoreceptor classes (FA I, FA II, SA I and SA II) have been reconstructed to form two-dimensional Spatial Event Plots (raster plots) of the Braille alphabet.
  • (10) The chemical identity of the particular choice in our genetic alphabet can also be rationalized.
  • (11) "Satire is not a very familiar alphabet in Africa ," he said.
  • (12) Our Scrabble board had Velcro on the back, as did each alphabet piece.
  • (13) 10 Change your name Local parties, believe it or not, obsess over the alphabetical placement of candidates.
  • (14) However, the picture is rather complex in that we find significant correlations for some context-free word discrimination and sign-alphabet testing conditions.
  • (15) The lists were made up from the upper case letters of the alphabet, and during the recognition test each S was required to indicate how many times each of the irrelevant letters had appeared on the final list searched.
  • (16) Ministers have taken too long to consolidate the “alphabet soup” of agencies tasked with safeguarding the UK from cyber-attacks and there appears to be no coordination across the public sector, the public accounts committee (PAC) said.
  • (17) Biggs communicated using a pointer and alphabet, he said.
  • (18) They practiced spelling out the alphabet on a coloring book in a room next door.
  • (19) Failure rates of men, but not women students in genetics showed a significant positive correlation with alphabetical listing and ranged from 14% in the A-C region to 33% in the region T-Z.
  • (20) No attenuation of the alpha activity in the both hemispheres was seen during either the alphabet or kana syllabary imagery.

Encyclopaedia


Definition:

  • (n.) The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are all newspaper editors who have been roundly ignored by online encyclopaedia Wikipedia .
  • (2) Now the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit group which runs the collaboratively edited encyclopaedia, has posted the notices of removal from Google online .
  • (3) Diagnostic Encyclopaedia Workstation (DEW) is the name of a digital encyclopaedia constructed to contain reference knowledge with respect to the pathology of the ovary.
  • (4) A block on all language editions of the online encyclopaedia was detected at 5am GMT on Saturday, monitoring group Turkey Blocks said on its website.
  • (5) My mother promoted my intellectual tendencies and one of my great Christmas presents was Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedia, which I consumed.
  • (6) Jimmy Wales , co-founder of Wikipedia, said that as a result of the revelations about surveillance, the collaborative online encyclopaedia will begin encrypting communications with its users all over the world so that people cannot be spied on as they access information.
  • (7) "I sold encyclopaedias in New Orleans, I was a social worker in Haringey.
  • (8) He cut up a 10-volume illustrated Larousse encyclopaedia he'd bought in Bath, apparently using 32 pairs of scissors, and his collage technique helps depict such Thomas phrases as "slow clocks" (cue for several whirring time-pieces) or "the boys are dreaming wicked" (two pin-ups and touches of a Wild West rodeo).
  • (9) The centuries which followed witnessed a wealth of descriptions which, thanks in particular to the works of Celsus, Galen and the Arab authors, led to the formation of true medical encyclopaedias, although the diagnosis of skin diseases could not be approached.
  • (10) The stories of Ibori's "generosity" are enough to fill the pages of an encyclopaedia.
  • (11) Roth has recently turned his attentions towards trying to persuade Wikipedia , the collaborative online encyclopaedia, to let him adjust an inaccurate description of his novel, The Human Stain.
  • (12) Bishop, a walking encyclopaedia of house practice, knew the result of naming a Labor member.
  • (13) However, the episode was airbrushed away on the online encyclopaedia.
  • (14) A Freedom of Information request , which would reveal whether MPs and peers were engaging in “astroturfing” on the crowdsourced encyclopaedia, was turned down on the basis that “releasing the information would be likely to prejudice the prevention or detection of crime.” The @ParliamentEdits Twitter account, set up by the journalist and developer Tom Scott, was designed to automatically tweet whenever Wikipedia was edited by someone within the Houses of Parliament.
  • (15) The update places results pulled from Google’s Knowledge Graph – a database containing encyclopaedia entries on about 570m concepts, relationships, facts and figures – under small popup information panels next to search results.
  • (16) Caliendo, 61, found early success selling encyclopaedias door-to-door, rose up the ranks of the De Agostini publishing group, then in 1979 fixed what were thought to be the first personal endorsements by an Italian footballer, for the international playmaker Giancarlo Antognoni.
  • (17) Wikipedia has been forced to ban users inside the US Congress building from making edits to the collaborative encyclopaedia, after at least one member of staff began trolling the site.
  • (18) Now, what else can I tell you?” He mulls something over, then says: “No, I can’t tell you that.” We are in the office of DK Books, which is publishing an exhaustive new Star Wars encyclopaedia to which Daniels has contributed the foreword.
  • (19) Back in 2004, Berger's debut, Torremolinos 73 , a terrific, oddball sex comedy about husband and wife amateur pornographers during the Franco regime (their first home movies are for the cheekily disingenuous World Audiovisual Encyclopaedia of Reproduction) was a critical and commercial hit.
  • (20) Images on the world’s largest encyclopaedia must be licensed in such a way that they can be re-used under the same free license that the site itself is licensed.

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