What's the difference between biographical and encyclopedia?

Biographical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (2) In the course of the years, López Ibor came to the conclusion that anxious thymopathy was not an independent nosological entity, rather that vital (also called endothymic) anxiety was an element present in all forms of neurotic disorders integrated with personality and biographical factors.
  • (3) It brought back Thatcher biographer Hugo Young's words for a front page portrait that offered criticism as well as praise for her legacy.
  • (4) Read more Some biographical details in the forms are not consistent with known information.
  • (5) After this all patients were given three questionnaires: Symptom Questionnaire, Illness Behaviour Questionnaire and a Biographic Questionnaire prepared specifically for this study.
  • (6) Quantitative data collected included a range of biographical detail, an outline of career patterns, professional qualifications and specific preparation undertaken for the teaching role.
  • (7) The profile’s biographical sentence read: “The official account of Andy Burnham’s campaign to be Labour’s candidate for mayor of Greater Manchester.” The account retained all its followers, although all the old tweets had been deleted.
  • (8) The biographer of James Maxton, a Scots leftwinger with his own iconic status, he knows about party loyalties and tribal heroes.
  • (9) But the bigger question, the one that has vexed historians, biographers and holocaust experts for eight decades, is why she was there.
  • (10) But with quotation now limited to fair dealing most of this will have to go, and the new version will be much more biographical.
  • (11) Hence, biographical anamnesis can be obligatory, supplying information that is essential for a therapeutic approach.
  • (12) The hopes which detente aroused remain, on the whole, unfulfilled while Macmillan's part in returning Russian prisoners of war to Stalin in 1945 will need explanation to his biographer.
  • (13) Speaking through his biographer Joseph Farrell, Fo recalled his grandfather, an acclaimed storyteller, who would travel from village to village selling vegetables from a horse-drawn cart that the young Fo was allowed to drive.
  • (14) This paper elucidates their mutual relationship and corrects biographical inaccuracies concerning George Huntington and George Sumner Huntington.
  • (15) More on The Butler • The Butler: first-look review • News: Barack Obama 'teared up' watching The Butler • News: Reagan biographers attack The Butler's portrayal
  • (16) This has been disputed by Wilde's recent biographer Neil McKenna, who has argued that Wilde had a sexual relationship with Frank Miles in 1876 – but McKenna's book was published in 2003, and this film was made in 1997.
  • (17) It tries to influence the biographical development.
  • (18) 22 female patients with aphonia underwent laryngoscopic and phonic examinations, psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing and biographical history-taking.
  • (19) The successful musical Fela!, about the life of the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, recently had to defend itself against $5 million claim from his official biographer on the grounds that it failed to credit his book asa source for the production.
  • (20) For a comprehensive approach to psychic risk factors and their treatment and prevention anxiety, depression, important experiences in life and individual biographic constellations are equally important.

Encyclopedia


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Encyclopaedia

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indeed, as the Russian encyclopedia for its practitioners concluded: “Information war … is in many places replacing standard war.” The idea was clear enough.
  • (2) During the survey, the common folk medicine plants used by women were recorded and Ayurvedic and Unani drug encyclopedias were consulted for the antireproductive potential of these plants.
  • (3) Named Siri after the startup company which developed it and was bought by Apple in April 2010, the voice activation also links through to a non-Google search engine, Wolfram Alpha, which offers a type of online encyclopedia database of facts and theories.
  • (4) How could we get millions of people to work together, across borders and perspectives, without pay, to build a reliable, accurate encyclopedia?
  • (5) Overnight, there were more than 100 modifications to the online encyclopedia’s page on Haut Ogooué, a Gabonese province.
  • (6) The proliferation of weblogs, and particularly the success of the user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia, prove that democratising the online space can have wide-ranging and legitimate uses.
  • (7) Information war was less about methods of persuasion and more about “influencing social relations” But when I began to pore over recent Russian military theory – in history books and journals – the strange language of the encyclopedia began to make more sense.
  • (8) And later: "I'm a human being, not a walking encyclopedia."
  • (9) It was the loss of his childhood encyclopedia that brought home the heartbreak.
  • (10) They are doing it every minute of every day in indexed web searches, in blogs, in books, in email, in maps, in news, in photos, in videos, in their own encyclopedia.
  • (11) In one instance "Blame Liverpool fans" was anonymously added to the Hillsborough section of the online encyclopedia.
  • (12) Albucasis taught medicine at the university of Cordoba and published an encyclopedia of medicine comprising 30 volumes, the last one dealing with surgery.
  • (13) So the state doesn’t switch on its self-defence mechanisms.” If regular war is about actual guns and missiles, the encyclopedia continues, “information war is supple, you can never predict the angle or instruments of an attack”.
  • (14) Perhaps the encyclopedia, and talk of “invisible radiation” that could override “biological defences”, was simply one more bluff – like the fake nuclear weapons that were paraded through Red Square in order to lead overeager western analysts down a hall of mirrors.
  • (15) This paper describes such a system (a "diagnostic encyclopedia workstation"), which provides information to the pathologist engaged in daily diagnostic practice.
  • (16) The only reason we know about this block is because of how Wikipedia handles its own blacklist – a list of IP addresses that have been used recently in vandalism against the encyclopedia.
  • (17) The first image was the one most preferred by the patient; the second was the one determined by the experimenter to represent the most successful mastery of developmental stages according to the schemata outlined by Erickson (International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, Vol.
  • (18) "The Merck Index", an internationally recognized encyclopedia of drugs, chemicals, and biologicals was produced by the traditional method for eight consecutive editions.
  • (19) The revelations come after it emerged that Shapps had changed his entry in the online encyclopedia to correct the number of O-levels he obtained.
  • (20) The "Hager", undoubtedly a practical, indispensable encyclopedia of more than 10,000 pages is to be found in every German pharmacy.