What's the difference between chronicle and series?

Chronicle


Definition:

  • (n.) An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time.
  • (n.) A narrative of events; a history; a record.
  • (n.) The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.
  • (v. t.) To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (2) By October the Chronicle's editors had announced a new series of articles, aimed at providing "a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material, and physical condition of the industrial poor throughout England", and Mayhew was to be the Metropolitan Correspondent, filing regular reports from areas of London that might as well have been on the moon for all the notice most people took of them.
  • (3) My first novel began as a serial in the San Francisco Chronicle.
  • (4) The blog, which used to chronicle the discoveries OkCupid made by observing its users’ behaviour, has been mothballed for three years, since OkCupid was purchased by dating behemoth Match.com in February 2011.
  • (5) The Long War Journal website chronicled 44 green-on-blue attacks that year.
  • (6) The bad news is that we may also learn a lot more about him (particularly from copious investigations by the Times , chronicling the high jinks and low politics of Nigel and his followers in Strasbourg).
  • (7) The span of history chronicled within the Holocron covers 20,000 years of fictional events.
  • (8) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (9) This presentation includes many of the important pioneers and their contributions, as well as a chronicle of arthroscopy's most primitive roots and its transcendency into an accurate surgical instrument.
  • (10) This article chronicles the steps that were taken by the nursing staff in preparation for these unique patients.
  • (11) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (12) He ran a restaurant after retirement, telling the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001 that he has “a hunger to get back in the game,” and so this trip to North Korea just may be the opportunity he’s been waiting for.
  • (13) The next day I began to draw, half-copying the woodcuts from the Chronicle, half exorcising my memory.
  • (14) Byzantine historians and chroniclers recorded events not only of national importance, but also of daily life.
  • (15) In his chronicle of centuries of economic exploitation, Galeano wrote: “The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret.
  • (16) In a report , she chronicled how a young man, deported after six years in the UK, was abducted upon returning to Kabul.
  • (17) We insist upon the priority of the relationship doctor-patient in the case of a chronicle affection, which is less uneasy for some and shameful for a great many.
  • (18) The majority of her books were successful fiction and included the 12-volume family sequence The Performers (1973-86) and the six-book sequence The Poppy Chronicles (1987-92).
  • (19) The Newcastle Evening Chronicle's front-page headline read "What a Joke".
  • (20) Our results chronicle the magnitude of metabolic response to spinal shock.

Series


Definition:

  • (n.) A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
  • (n.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
  • (n.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
  • (2) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
  • (3) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
  • (4) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
  • (5) A series of eight patients with multiple meningiomas is presented.
  • (6) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
  • (7) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (8) Mitonafide is the lead compound of a new series of antitumor drugs, the 3-Nitronaphthalimides, which have shown antineoplastic activity in vitro as well as in vivo.
  • (9) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
  • (10) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (11) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
  • (12) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
  • (13) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
  • (14) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (15) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
  • (16) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
  • (17) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (18) The four patients treated in our series recovered fully; the single fatal case constituted an unrecognized case of pneumococcal endocarditis.
  • (19) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
  • (20) Recently, we have designed a series of simplified artificial signal sequences and have shown that a proline residue in the signal sequence plays an important role in the secretion of human lysozyme in yeast, presumably by altering the conformation of the signal sequence [Yamamoto, Y., Taniyama, Y., & Kikuchi, M. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 2728-2732].