What's the difference between blurry and vague?

Blurry


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of blurs; blurred.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Almost all the hundreds of allegedly missing drawings, which range from close-up detail to blurry colour washes and clearly held a powerful erotic charge for Turner, appear to be safely in the Tate collection.
  • (2) Ann's audiovisual address ends with her projecting on to the screen behind her a series of extremely blurry photographs.
  • (3) You know, I actually don’t know, because it was so far away and it was blurry.
  • (4) Light is then focused in front of the retina instead of precisely on to it, making distant objects look blurry.
  • (5) Of particular concern is the complaint of 'blurry vision' that may indicate the presence of optic neuropathy.
  • (6) For some at the bottom of the pile, at least, the line between zero-hours working and self-employment is getting blurry.
  • (7) The anger will fade, in the end but those blurry memories of this brilliant game will linger on much longer.
  • (8) LaVoy Finicum, the Oregon militia spokesman killed by law enforcement officials on a remote highway, was armed with a handgun and reached for his pocket before he was shot, according to the FBI, which shared blurry video footage of the shooting on Thursday night.
  • (9) But when even Felix started to echo back the word yamas – "cheers" in Greek – I knew it was time to catch the ferry to a simpler existence, away from the blurry influence of Dionysus.
  • (10) Four years ago – in the blurry haze following my diagnosis – I had to make a swift decision about whether to have a breast reconstruction at the same time as my mastectomy.
  • (11) A case is presented of a postpartum woman prescribed bromocriptine for suppression of lactation who developed hypertension, headaches, blurry vision, seizures, and pituitary hemorrhage.
  • (12) It began as an attempt to restore one blurry image that had been hidden for a century behind a large built-in wardrobe on William Morris's bedroom wall.
  • (13) And with optical image stabilisation, you no longer have to worry about shaky hands and blurry pictures," Google said.
  • (14) The defocus levels required for normal observers to notice the first perceptible blur of a clear test target (blur threshold) and the least perceptible change in the degree of blurriness of an already blurry target (threshold of perceived change in blur) were measured using both the source and observer methods.
  • (15) Lebanon’s Al-Manar television channel, run by the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah, carried still, blurry pictures of pools of blood inside what appeared to be the mosque where the attack took place.
  • (16) The camera swoops and shakes, the main characters shift in and out of blurry focus, and there is no sound apart from music and a triumphant voice-over.
  • (17) "We're in this new era of entertainment where the lines between consuming content and participating in it are blurry," he said, before pointing to the global nature of YouTube, with 40% of the 80,000 channels in AwesomenessTV's network produced outside the US.
  • (18) It was interesting to see what foreigners are shown – a chilly model hospital with no patients, for example – and a few blurry glimpses of what they are not shown: the miserable poor, squatting in ditches.
  • (19) These are principles that we must stand by, even when we disagree with the message of the speaker.” Santilli’s prosecution raises questions about the blurry line between media personality and protest participant and the extent to which free-speech rights can protect a radio host who, in several ways, engaged in the armed occupation of federal land.
  • (20) The mere release of the American cover was much buzzed about: it shows the blurry image of a girl overlaid with royal blue lettering.

Vague


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Wandering; vagrant; vagabond.
  • (v. i.) Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition.
  • (v. i.) Proceeding from no known authority; unauthenticated; uncertain; flying; as, a vague report.
  • (n.) An indefinite expanse.
  • (v. i.) To wander; to roam; to stray.
  • (n.) A wandering; a vagary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In view of its infrequent and vague presentation, care is required to avoid overlooking the diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis, particularly in the immigrant population.
  • (2) Congenital defect of a cervical pedicle produces a rare clinical syndrome with a characteristic X-ray picture associated with vague clinical signs often accentuated after trauma.
  • (3) Such an explanation not only remains vague and speculative but deserves criticism also for being incomplete.
  • (4) What are New York values?” he asked the crowd, alluding to Cruz’s vague denigration of those “liberal” values in a January debate.
  • (5) Chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder in which the abnormality in cellular immunity has remained only vaguely defined.
  • (6) The family physician who sees many children with vague abdominal pain must include peptic ulcer disease in the differential diagnosis.
  • (7) The remaining patients had vague pains, tender abdomen, constitutional symptoms or a mass in the abdomen.
  • (8) The system was "flawed" and the rules were "vague".
  • (9) The Japanese preferred alternative was to give a vague alternative diagnosis such as neurasthenia.
  • (10) Veering between a patronising video , a vague report and impenetrable financial data does not amount to openness and accountability.
  • (11) "In addition, the Department for Communities and Local Government [DCLG] has failed to provide the council with any cost estimates for the audit apart from the vague statement that costs are likely to be 'within £1m'.
  • (12) The diagnosis of leptospirosis is often difficult to make because of vague and mild symptoms.
  • (13) Since the day of action was announced, there has been a new mood in the group; some people talk somewhat vaguely about Tunisia and Egypt; mass protest is in the air.
  • (14) A case is reported where pneumoperitoneum developed after the surgical procedure with vague abdominal symptoms accompanied by fever and leukocytosis.
  • (15) This feature of ILC may also help explain why tumors may be palpable as areas of vague induration or thickening rather than as discrete masses.
  • (16) A 57-year-old man was admitted with the complaints of vague headache and left upper limb numbness.
  • (17) Polling suggests that people prefer the Conservatives on immigration because they expect them to be "tougher" in some vague, generic sense, rather than because they believe in their policies.
  • (18) As biological discharge phenomena evolve into vague psychological awareness, such an infant does not attain a sense of well-being, but rather attains a sense of "not-well-being" (Joffe and Sandler, 1965) which remains continuous or can be triggered--kindled--by any reactivating constellation, and the object is experienced as a source of unpleasure.
  • (19) The only time I see him in even vague bad humour is when a wardrobe assistant tries to neaten a dancer's hair.
  • (20) The concept of fuzzy sets was chosen for its ability to represent classes of objects that are vaguely described from the measured data.