What's the difference between citation and commendation?

Citation


Definition:

  • (n.) An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
  • (n.) The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.
  • (n.) Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.
  • (n.) A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A manual search, derived from the references of these papers, was performed to obtain relevant citations for the years preceding 1970.
  • (2) Findings and conclusions cover the value of a core collection of journals, length of journal files, performance of certain bibliographic instruments in citation verification, and the implications of study data for library planning and management.
  • (3) More than 500 articles and books are organized by topic in a Citation Index giving authors and dates.
  • (4) OSHA issued citations in 94% of the cases, with fines ranging up to $58,400; the average fine was $1,991 per death.
  • (5) These three factors were also independently associated with more citations to participants' published work (P less than .05).
  • (6) Some suggestions for reducing these high levels of inaccuracy are that papers scheduled for publication with errors of citation should be returned to the author and checked completely and a permanent column specifically for misquotations could be inserted into the journal.
  • (7) Citations retrieved from the storesearch are input into an in-house computerized data base.
  • (8) Eighty-four percent of the discrete citations retrieved were from 664 periodicals subscribed to by both services.
  • (9) An analysis of biomedical engineering core journals provides statistical data about citation patterns in this discipline.
  • (10) The citations in the literature include only case reports.
  • (11) A citation for the honour came from one of his former pupils, Sarah Brown, the chancellor's wife.
  • (12) Fifty randomly selected references from a single monthly issue of The American Journal of Surgery; Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics; and Surgery were evaluated for citation and quotation errors.
  • (13) The number of citations found among 126 different databases and abstracting services that were examined varied: 39 had no citations to mosquitoes, but 13 (including life-sciences, medical and even popular-literature databases) had greater than 100 citations.
  • (14) Writing a chapter on retinal GABAB receptors is premature, as evidenced by the paucity of citations more than two years old.
  • (15) The unquestioning citation of a dogma of the Ancients until modern times is a common phenomenon in medical history.
  • (16) Computerized MEDLINE and SCIENCE CITATION searches were combined with review of reference lists from book chapters and articles to identify published randomized trials on steroid interventions.
  • (17) The official citation for the asteroid reads: "Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was a Scottish writer best known for the Culture series of science fiction novels; he also wrote fiction as Iain Banks.
  • (18) Accompanying the article are tables of cases broken down by court system and by subject matter, and a subject compilation of 320 case citations.
  • (19) These structure-activity methods are introduced, and citations are given.
  • (20) However, the distribution of citation frequency values within a journal is extremely broad and skewed; therefore assigning the same value to all articles would not seem to serve the purpose of evaluation particularly well.

Commendation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of commending; praise; favorable representation in words; recommendation.
  • (n.) That which is the ground of approbation or praise.
  • (n.) A message of affection or respect; compliments; greeting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Last week, the army major who ordered Dar to be tied to the vehicle was awarded a commendation for his counter-insurgency work in the region.
  • (2) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
  • (3) This lustrous amber oil looks lovely and is commended for its "subtle", more neutral flavour.
  • (4) Furthermore, rodents frequently develop immunity to, and become carriers of, these organisms, and there is little to commend their use, except in lightly populated areas where control is infrequently applied.
  • (5) In the circumstances, they showed commendable resolve not to allow all the changes and disruption to break their supremacy.
  • (6) Channel 4 News is to be commended for pioneering this move, particularly as a mere 0.4% of British journalists are Muslim , according to study by City University.
  • (7) The illustrated format was commended by students for its clinical relevance but certain problems with the reproduction of radiographs and the selection of data have been revealed.
  • (8) Patients, family members, and a physician wrote letters of commendation regardless of the LOS, payer source, total charges, time spent with the patient, and personnel who provided the care.
  • (9) The satisfactory results commend the procedure, which has yet to gain global acceptance.
  • (10) Whatever the answer, this is a brave move and I commend her.
  • (11) The president then commended Jackson as “proof of what a young person can accomplish free of drink or drug abuse”.
  • (12) The problems of monitoring children whilst they receive radiotherapy under general anaesthesia are discussed, the merits of different methods are reviewed and the use of the capnograph is commended.
  • (13) "We are managing an unprecedented situation and all the staff involved should be commended for their dedication and hard work during this difficult time," said a Prison Service spokesperson.
  • (14) Bryant told the committee that he commended the current Yard inquiry under Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers.
  • (15) Glasgow city council and the emergency services are also to be commended, firstly for their rigorous scrutiny of the proposal and secondly for having the courage to grant the first approval.
  • (16) President Obama, while commendably showing her mercy, also oversaw a justice department that prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other administrations combined, while casting an unmistakable chill over investigative reporting and press freedom.
  • (17) It said the bishop was "commended" to it by the then archbishop of Rwanda, Emmanuel Kolini.
  • (18) "We commend our soldiers for exhibiting resolve even while under heavy fire."
  • (19) Two criteria (willingness and medical benefit) are commended in the context of initiating treatment, while three distinctions (willing v unwilling, passive v active, and terminal v nonterminal) are found to be particularly helpful when deciding if treatment should be terminated.
  • (20) Work in Europe and the US over the past two years has commended aspirin as an anti-blood clotting agent for heart and stroke sufferers.