What's the difference between compilation and petition?

Compilation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
  • (n.) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
  • (2) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
  • (3) A compilation of injuires sustained in an amateur ice hockey program over a tw0-year period revealed that the majority of those injuires were facial lacerations.
  • (4) The additional value of these methods, especially of the intensive monitoring, lies also in the possibility of compiling new knowledge about semiology and electro-clinical correlation of epileptic seizures, possible trigger mechanisms and long-term therapeutic effects.
  • (5) This report summarizes 1989 infant mortality data based on information from death certificates compiled through the Vital Statistics System of CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) (1) and compares findings with those for 1988.
  • (6) The information compiled in the computers as databases together with its capability to handle complex statistical analysis also enables dermatologists and computer scientists to develop expert systems to assist the dermatologist in the diagnosis and prognostication of diseases and to predict disease trends.
  • (7) Meanwhile, data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute in December 2013 shows that unintended pregnancies are increasingly concentrated among poor and less educated women.
  • (8) The index, now in its third year, was compiled by the PR firm Portland Communications in conjunction with the University of Southern California school of public diplomacy.
  • (9) Compiled from data gathered at 14:00 on 3 April 2014.
  • (10) The use of the latter in compiling bibliographic databases and in content analysis of interview transcripts is described.
  • (11) Interspike time histograms were very similar and had a mode of about 280 ms. Peristimulus time histograms were compiled from 15 active MDN-LS neurons.
  • (12) In order to compile an accurate air-quality data base for use in estimating exposure via inhalation, raw data values were sought where possible, and the required calculations were performed on a computer with state-of-the-art algorithms.
  • (13) Over the last month, the company has released PR materials that highlight the Gulf’s resilience, as well as a report compiling scientific studies that suggest the area is making a rapid recovery.
  • (14) The EU report said that the MIT, Turkey’s intelligence service, had begun compiling lists of “troublesome individuals” years ago.
  • (15) An earlier version referred incorrectly to “an expert appointed by UNHCR” where it should have said “an expert taken from a list compiled by the UNHCR and appointed by the state”.
  • (16) An analysis of 401 gynecologic deaths occurring at the Charity Hospital of Louisianna in New Orleans from April 1961 to January 1969 was compiled for comparison with a similar study (401 fatalities) conducted at the same medical facility in 194 (Miller).
  • (17) The property website Zoopla, which compiled the data, found that there are 3,744 streets in London where the price of homes is on average higher than £1m, and 10,613 across the country.
  • (18) The Fifa ethics investigator who spent 18 months and £6m compiling a report into the controversial 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding race has quit his post in disgust, departing with a broadside against the organisation’s culture and practices.
  • (19) Genetic markers in people of African ancestry and tables comparing Africans and Europeans are compiled to illustrate the blood differences.
  • (20) A main frame computer program SIMP, based on a simplex method using differential equations, was also operated using a microcomputer equipped with a FORTRAN compiler and a 8087 floating-point coprocessor.

Petition


Definition:

  • (n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer.
  • (n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document.
  • (v. t.) To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor.
  • (v. i.) To make a petition or solicitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
  • (2) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
  • (3) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
  • (4) Some art experts have petitioned against Seracini drilling through the Vasari fresco, claiming any paint found behind might have been left by another artist.
  • (5) Nearly 740,000 people have signed a petition calling for an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia, organised by the campaign group Avaaz.
  • (6) Monday's petition showdown is a chance to demonstrate they have the popular support to back up those claims.
  • (7) Cameron made clear in his speech that Britain remains committed to the individual right to petition.
  • (8) Differently from generalised non convulsive seizures (like petit mal absences), their first appearance has no typical age limit, however, their proportion to other forms of seizures increases in adolescence and adults especially between the third and fifth decade of life.
  • (9) Induction of petite (cytoplasmic-respiration-deficient, rho-,rho-) mutations in yeast and deletion of mitochondrial drug-resistance genetic markers were compared after after treatment with ethidium and the corresponding photoaffinity probe, ethidium azide.
  • (10) Signing up Round-robin emails encouraging web users to sign e-petitions have attracted hundreds of thousands of signatures.
  • (11) Releasing Eric Garner grand jury papers 'would help restore public trust' Read more A petition from the the New York Civil Liberties Union and others had called for the release of the grand jury transcripts, including testimony by Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer involved in the incident.
  • (12) In terms of education, a representative of the Born Free Foundation once pointed out, out of millions of visitors to zoos in Europe, only 2% signed a bushmeat petition.
  • (13) Of course, saying this even while petitioning for easier repayment on Greece's mountain of debt is just another example of austerity's topsy-turvyism.
  • (14) In a relatively high proportion of the transformants, disruption of the 17-kDa gene was accompanied by the appearance of a second mutation causing a petite phenotype.
  • (15) Ursula K Le Guin, who gained significant author support for her petition calling for "the principle of copyright, which is directly threatened by the settlement, [to] be honoured and upheld in the United States", also opted out.
  • (16) In disorders of petit mal epilepsy and parkinsonian tremor, centrally and peripherally observable rhythmic patterns are due to network oscillations of thalamocortical cells.
  • (17) It’s time to speak out, to bring this impunity to an end, time for men to change their behaviour rather than for women to adapt to it,” the petition says.
  • (18) None had petit mal, confirming its rarity in the elderly.
  • (19) Ureterosigmoidostomy with anti-reflux technique (Petit-Leadbetter procedure) was performed in 12 children, mainly after failure to repair an exstrophy.
  • (20) With 66,000 signatures on a petition after four days, immigration minister Peter Dutton cancelled Allen’s visa.