What's the difference between compend and compendium?

Compend


Definition:

  • (n.) A compendium; an epitome; a summary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A long vertical way of replacement produces more extra safetyreserves for the effective compendation of the appearing chewing forces.

Compendium


Definition:

  • (n.) A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His bestselling book is The Annotated Alice, a timeless compendium of footnotes to the two Alice books, and a decade ago he wrote a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy and friends go to Manhattan.
  • (2) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
  • (3) The resulting compendium of objectives suggests that geriatric dentistry should become integrated into general dentistry, with relatively few competencies reserved for specialists.
  • (4) Despite significant progress, further advances in intestinal transplantation need to be made, because the small bowel poses unique problems in that it seems to represent a compendium of all the particularities and difficulties of other organ transplantations.
  • (5) This compendium presents the references by Journal Name.
  • (6) ‘Will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants’ “Because copyright law is limited to ‘original intellectual conceptions of the author,’ the Office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work,” said the US Copyright Office in its latest compendium of practices published Tuesday .
  • (7) This compendium provides a quick reference to available tricyclic antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, lithium carbonate, and stimulants.
  • (8) Stewart plays a fake anchor, tirelessly skewering the absurdities of US politics while Oliver plays his fake Senior British Correspondent, a walking compendium of British cliches.
  • (9) This result suggests that there is a lack of agreement among industrialized countries regarding what amount of information is necessary or appropriate for inclusion in a commercial drug compendium.
  • (10) The Orange Book contains public information and advice, but it is not an official national compendium; FDA has no position on state regulation of drug product selection by pharmacists.
  • (11) Dodgy decisions (1992's B-sides compendium, Greatest Misses ) and the explosion of MTV-friendly rap conspired against them their popularity waned.
  • (12) The purpose of this study was to determine what differences exist in the content of commercial drug compendium monographs available in First World and Third World countries.
  • (13) A compendium of the clinical experience with methylene chloride poisoning is presented.
  • (14) Several recent articles in the Compendium have emphasized the importance of differentiating between acute and chronic pain for purposes of appropriate clinical management.
  • (15) His 1993 collection, United States: Essays 1952-1992, is a huge and majestic compendium that charts not just Vidal's rumbustious life but the culture and politics of the country he could love and hate in the same sentence.
  • (16) It was found that the sensitivity of this new pyrogen test to bacterial lipopolysaccharides is nearly the same as to sodium nucleinate, which is prescribed as pyrogen standard in the Pharmacopeia of the German Democratic Republic and recommended as such in the Compendium Medicamentorum.
  • (17) The ILC Compendium is "a snapshot of the older woman's life in the UK today", showing that many women outlive men, and suffer more poverty, illness, violence and abuse, and it calls for young women to campaign and make sure we don't become second-class citizens.
  • (18) Presented here is a compendium of studies investigating the fate of vascularized bone allografts.
  • (19) The two reference texts most frequently found in community pharmacists' libraries were Compendium of Pharmaceutical Specialties and Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, the latter being available to only 49 percent of the pharmacists.
  • (20) Table 7 presents a compendium of laboratory investigations one should consider using when abnormalities are found in multiple organ systems.

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