What's the difference between comprehensive and encyclopedic?

Comprehensive


Definition:

  • (a.) Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
  • (a.) Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
  • (a.) Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (2) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
  • (3) Further study both of the signaling events that lead to MPF activation and of the substrates for phosphorylation by MPF should lead to a comprehensive understanding of the biochemistry of cell division.
  • (4) A comprehensive review of the roentgenographic features of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (pseudogout) is presented.
  • (5) What is striking is the comprehensive and strategic approach they have.
  • (6) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
  • (7) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
  • (8) This paper describes the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of a sample of chronically mentally ill clients at a large comprehensive community mental health center.
  • (9) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
  • (10) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
  • (11) Therefore, a comprehensive study of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 report forms was conducted from state-licensed testing laboratories in California.
  • (12) However, it remains clear that new and innovative techniques are necessary in the therapeutic, adjuvant, and palliative settings in the comprehensive care of the patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.
  • (13) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
  • (14) The efficient and reliable assessment of general community health requires the development of comprehensive and parsimonious measures of proven validity.
  • (15) Understanding pathophysiology, educating patients, and performing comprehensive nursing assessments will be of great importance to this at-risk population.
  • (16) And that is why we have taken bold action at home – by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.
  • (17) In addition, we will introduce our popular content to new UK audiences and create a comprehensive offering for our commercial partners on-air and online."
  • (18) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
  • (19) The functional basis of this complex is a block controlling the information input, and it is described comprehensively.
  • (20) With the new federalism, nutritionists must articulate their role in comprehensive health care and market their services at the state and local levels in addition to the federal level.

Encyclopedic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Encyclopedical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Smoke weed every day!” And in movies, Snoop’s been happy to play to his stoner persona, both in the pro-weed documentary The Culture High and as Huggy Bear in 2004’s Starsky and Hutch , where he displays an encyclopedic knowledge of actual grass varieties on a golf course.
  • (2) The encyclopedic list of diagnostic considerations can be distilled into a concise and practical differential diagnosis based on the location of the mass and the established prevalence of various tumors and pseudotumors in the mediastinal compartments.
  • (3) How does the Fed, which has an encyclopedic command of every kind of economic indicator, know all of this is working?
  • (4) Woodworth's scholarly approach pervaded the department so that many of his colleagues also wrote pioneering encyclopedic works in their particular fields of specialization.
  • (5) The co-author of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, Gambaccini has an encyclopedic knowledge of music and is rare, probably unique, among radio presenters in having worked across BBC Radio, from 1 to 4, as well as for commercial stations such as Capital and Classic FM, in his 35-year broadcasting career.
  • (6) This brief review of abdominal emergencies is by no means encyclopedic.
  • (7) His refusal to take any MP or situation very seriously masked an encyclopedic knowledge of politics derived from his spell as the Observer's political editor.
  • (8) The flagship exhibition of Massimiliano Gioni’s 2013 Venice Biennale was entitled The Encyclopedic Palace after the work of self-taught Italian outsider artist Marino Auriti.
  • (9) "I woke up at 14 or 15 and realised that I was a genius with an encyclopedic knowledge of punk music, but my parents were concerned with trivial matters, like whether I picked my socks up or not.
  • (10) His encyclopedic knowledge of the NHS meant new health secretaries always relied heavily on his advice.
  • (11) We have not attempted to be encyclopedic, but have confined ourselves to the more common or distinctiive radiographic findings.
  • (12) He would eventually accrue a near-legendary encyclopedic knowledge on almost everything except for sport, which he didn't like.
  • (13) To expect the chief executive to display encyclopedic command of every aspect of that brief is unrealistic.
  • (14) As he says: “I get older, they stay the same age.” 5 | Snoop Dogg Rapper Facebook Twitter Pinterest Encyclopedic knowledge: Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear in Starsky and Hutch.
  • (15) He was famous for pioneering a form of political essay built on his encyclopedic knowledge of Latin America’s past, and his writings bear some comparison with the similarly innovative works of Ryszard Kapuściński and Sven Lindqvist .
  • (16) S M Mahmudul Hasan, 55, a community leader at Korail, has an encyclopedic knowledge of the residents, mostly families who migrated from places such as Bhola and Barial.
  • (17) This article discusses all of the options recently available in order to give information to those treating patients who have had these procedures as well as to be encyclopedic in the event that these techniques become available again.
  • (18) Contrary to what has been claimed, Wimmer's original description, although showing an encyclopedic knowledge of the international literature of the day, has not been directly influenced by Magnan.
  • (19) Watson showed off its encyclopedic knowledge of topics ranging from ancient languages to fashion design, along with a few glitches.
  • (20) Major issues in content are presented with reference to encyclopedic and more readable texts and journals.