What's the difference between breadth and handbreadth?

Breadth


Definition:

  • (a.) Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is thought that Burnham has more than 70 nominations in the parliamentary Labour party and the breadth of his support is beginning to make it difficult for some of the other candidates such as Tristam Hunt, the shadow education secretary, and even Liz Kendall, the shadow health minister, to gather the 35 nominations from MPs they need to get on the ballot paper.
  • (2) Darling, one of the Cabinet's Eeyores, took a more cautious view but even he has been surprised by the length, depth and breadth of the crisis.
  • (3) More than once, she replies to a question by wrinkling her nose and saying: “It’s all in the book.” Tempest can’t quite see why the breadth of her output – songs, poems, plays, a novel – is notable, because it’s all about writing and performance.
  • (4) Based upon its reliability, validity, breadth of assessment, and ease of administration, the SIP appears to be well suited for the assessment of patients suffering from chronic pain and evaluating the efficacy of multidisciplinary pain units.
  • (5) Between members of different teams however, only the finger breadth method attained reliabilities above .7, and the plexiglass jig, in particular, showed very low reliability.
  • (6) They are not going to be cowed by what the government has to say.” Siewert said the Barnett government appeared to have been shocked by the breadth and depth of opposition to the policy, fanned by the prime minister Tony Abbott, describing living in a remote community on Aboriginal homelands as a “lifestyle choice”, and was “casting about to see what will receive the least opposition”.
  • (7) Imran Khan, director of the Campaign for Science and Engineering, said that the breadth of the peers' concerns showed that science and engineering had not had an easy ride over the past few years, as had sometimes been assumed.
  • (8) Compared with instruments used in similar studies, this log-diary appears to gather a greater breadth and depth of information about physician practice patterns.
  • (9) The six other techniques of evaluation were: a) palpation, or the number of finger breadths inserted between the acromial process and the head of the humerus; b) anthropometry, or the distance between the acromial process and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus; c) templates, or the use of four schemas representing different degrees of separation of the humeral head from the glenoid fossa; d) a measure of the relation of the center of the humeral head to the center of the glenoid fossa; e) the vertical distance between the center of the humeral head and the center of the glenoid fossa; and f) the vertical distance between the apex of the humeral head and the inferior border of the glenoid fossa.
  • (10) Epiphysial breadth of the long bones well qualified for difference sex of the bones, demonstrated by new measurements of 314 bones from adult persons.
  • (11) Anthropometric dimensions included lengths, breadths, circumferences, and skinfolds.
  • (12) The style and content of the cooking owed much to the cultural breadth and depth of Elizabeth David's French, Italian and Mediterranean books.
  • (13) Transverse cephalometric measurements showed significantly narrower bilateral orbital breadth, bizygomatic, and binasal dimensions (narrower face) of the PRAC patients compared with the control sample.
  • (14) The breadth of the groups with financial ties to Peabody is extraordinary.
  • (15) The children were tested for IQ performance, breadth of attention, and performance on a series of electronically controlled cognitive-motor tests.
  • (16) The cross-sections of bone islands formed by calvarial osteoblasts in the different types of transplants were then compared according to their maximal breadth and length.
  • (17) With figures adjusted for inflation , the 1965 release Thunderball is only a hair’s-breadth below Skyfall, while Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice both outperformed the other Craig films (as did the 70s Bonds, The Spy Who Loved Me and Live and Let Die).
  • (18) Drug trafficking is not as profitable.” Although the “Mafia Capitale” scandal was first exposed last year , the investigation into the corruption of public contracts has continued, with new revelations about the breadth of wrongdoing reported in the press on a weekly basis.
  • (19) The present study contains the centile charts and tables of the 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90 and 95 centiles values of the 5 fundamental head dimensions: head length (g-op), head breadth (eu-eu), face height (n-gn), face breadth ( zy - zy ), and cephalic index (formula see text).
  • (20) The possibilities of variation in skip pendulum irradiation are examined, a schedule facilitates the choice of field breadth and pendulum angle.

Handbreadth


Definition:

  • (n.) A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.

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