What's the difference between anthology and canon?

Anthology


Definition:

  • (n.) A discourse on flowers.
  • (n.) A collection of flowers; a garland.
  • (n.) A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.
  • (n.) A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The anthology can be organised in any way they want – it can be themed, or it can be issue-led ... anything they choose.
  • (2) The Guardian’s own readers’ anthology of dubious deals – crusty rolls 40p, two for £1!
  • (3) This was a time when the publication of an anthology launched under the council's auspices was hardly calculated to produce favour- able reviews, however illustrious the editor.
  • (4) Each of the 75 secondary children chose one piece of their best work to go into an anthology, which we published.
  • (5) Discussing activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s anthology, Why Are faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?” , academic Alex Rowlson finds that the increasing phenomenon of profiles on gay men’s dating sites that contain exclusion lists like “no blacks; no Asians; no fats; no femmes; str8-acting only” is indicative of a significant undercurrent; that “ the culture of sexual liberation has been replaced by sexual segregation .” I read a staggering piece recently, entitled Why I No Longer Want To Be Gay .
  • (6) Photograph: National Gallery of Ireland The pieces will be published on 6 October in the anthology Lines of Vision: Irish Writers on Art , edited by Janet McLean, the gallery’s curator of European art 1850-1950, with each writer’s text illustrated with the painting that inspired it.
  • (7) Moore had contributed an essay on women's anger to an anthology of polemical writing.
  • (8) Kiri Hart, vice-president of development for Lucasfilm, said that the anthology films would vary in “scale and genre”.
  • (9) Damián Szifrón's Wild Tales is a gruesome, violent anthology from Argentina.
  • (10) The first is Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One, which debuts in December 2016.
  • (11) Rosenthal himself was busy by then on a script for The System, a Granada anthology series dedicated to the theme of management, or the outwitting of it.
  • (12) We will run our own public awareness campaigns; create our own resources, like our first IndigenousX anthology of 22 Indigenous writers, due for release in October.
  • (13) A collection of good Day jokes would fill a minor anthology.
  • (14) In a series of fantastic short films for Christmas, as well as in such anthology series as Dead of Night , the BBC (and especially Lawrence Gordon Clark ) turned out a number of small masterpieces: Jonathan Miller's Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968), Gordon Clark's The Signalman – Dickens adapted by Andrew Davies – (1976) and Leslie Megahey's Schalcken the Painter (1979) especially stand out.
  • (15) Like its cable-dwelling sister American Horror Story, Scream Queens will be presented as an anthology, with each season taking on a new plot, villain, hero and narrative trajectory.
  • (16) She calls her fans little monsters, and now Lady Gaga is going to be the biggest monster of them all on the next season of FX’s horror anthology show American Horror Story.
  • (17) It can be surprising to remember that Klein's immense global influence rests on a relatively small body of work; she has published three books, one of which is an anthology of magazine pieces.
  • (18) The winning anthology will be announced three months after the closing date, and it will be published by Picador with a foreword by Duffy, who will also visit the winning school.
  • (19) In this short "anthology," the various neurologic and neuropsychologic aspects of brain injury are illustrated by quotations from the Bible, literature, poetry, and history.
  • (20) "What I'd like to do is create anthologies for other school subjects – for history, for geography, for maths," she says.

Canon


Definition:

  • (n.) A law or rule.
  • (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
  • (n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
  • (n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
  • (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
  • (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
  • (n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
  • (n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
  • (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
  • (n.) See Carom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using a sample of 170 patients the psychopathological contents of the AMP system and the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) were compared by canonical correlations.
  • (2) Canonical discriminant function analysis of the relationship between these predictor variables on the first testing and whether participants (a) returned for retesting, (b) did not return because of apparent disinterest, or (c) did not return because of illness or death, revealed two significant canonical variates.
  • (3) Previous studies have documented transcription initiation sites and nuclease hypersensitive sites upstream of the epsilon-globin canonical cap site in K562 cells.
  • (4) The increased specificity of restriction endonucleases in the presence of spermidine is due to an enhancement of the cleavage rate at the canonical site and a slowing down of the cleavage rate at related sites.
  • (5) Canonical structures are not available for H3 due to its variability in length, sequence, and observed conformation in known antibody structures.
  • (6) A canonical promoter "TATA" box is located 30 base pairs upstream of the Cap site.
  • (7) The first canonical correlations were significant between risk factors and both sets of anthropometric variables (skinfolds, 0.36-0.46; circumferences, 0.39-0.54).
  • (8) Tyr1235 lies within the tyrosine kinase domain of p190MET, within a canonical tyrosine autophosphorylation site that shares homology with the corresponding region of the insulin, CSF-1 and platelet-derived growth factor receptors, and of p60src and p130gag-fps.
  • (9) On reversed sequences they vacillated between reproducing the events as modeled and "correcting" them to canonical order.
  • (10) Darkroom measures of tonic accommodation were determined using the infrared objective autorefractor, Canon Autoref R-1.
  • (11) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
  • (12) Resulting from the apparent use of a cryptic splice acceptor site in place of the canonical intron 5 site, this insertion is predicted to generate an in-frame insertion of five nonpolar amino acid residues within a highly polar region of the intracytoplasmic domain of the H-2K polypeptide.
  • (13) The findings were compared to those reported by Canon (1970) and were applied to a reassessment of the "visual capture" phenomenon.
  • (14) The output relation for the canonically simplest class of self-regulated incompletely coupled linear energy converters has been shown to be identical to the Hill force-velocity characteristic for muscle.
  • (15) The flanking regions of the gene contain the canonical elements typical for initiation and termination of transcription of yeast protein coding genes.
  • (16) It follows from the model that modifications of the first anticodon residue of the P-site tRNA can affect the stability of the A-site duplex, and that the translation of a DNA single chain analogue of mRNA should be accompanied by non-canonical base pairing at all three positions of the codon.
  • (17) The women remained defiant throughout the trial, issuing powerful closing statements that quickly entered the canon of Russia's dissident speeches.
  • (18) This work proposes that the approximately 200-residue binding segment of the canonical cytokine receptor is composed of two discrete folding domains that share a significant sequence and structural resemblance.
  • (19) Associations were examined by use of linear correlation, stepwise multiple regression, and canonical correlation analyses.
  • (20) We also found that a single OmpR-binding site can activate the ompC promoter, providing that the binding site is close and placed stereospecifically with respect to the canonical-35 and -10 regions.