What's the difference between concise and terse?

Concise


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It allows for a clear and concise convenience of information about the disease processes, use of medications, and treatment options.
  • (2) Identification of attribute sets for the nature-of-injury (body region:detailed part:type of injury) and for the mode-of-injury (mechanism:agent:activity:intent:setting) allows the assembly of a clear, concise, easily usable, nad extensible format for representing the appropriate level of detail for nomenclature or classification.
  • (3) Fillings were made of Concise composite resin, without applying an intermediary resin (1), after applying the resin layer (2), after diluting the mix with one (3) or two (4) drops of catalyst resin but without an intermediary resin, and after diluting the mix and applying the resin layer (5).
  • (4) The authors present the modern concepts about the etiology, pathogenesis clinical, X-ray and laboratory characteristics of Löfgren's syndrome in a concise form and then--their own observation on that clinical X-ray variant of sarcoidosis.
  • (5) Many descriptors might be used to describe the relationships between apparent heterogeneity and the size of the observed spatial elements, but we have found that fractal relationships provide concise and precise descriptions of many types of data over large ranges of element sizes.
  • (6) Take as brief, concise, and accurate a history as possible.
  • (7) This review will give a concise description of their biochemical nature, their isolation from macrophages and their angiogenic activity.
  • (8) This article gives a concise guide to the insertion of pulmonary arterial flotation catheters with the emphasis on points of safety that should minimize the risk to the patient.
  • (9) Scotchbond was used as the bonding agent in half of the prepared cavities' dentin and enamel; the control group (B) used Concise bonding agent in the enamel only.
  • (10) Pore flow models are classified and concisely reviewed, and it is shown that despite their apparent differences, they are equivalent.
  • (11) As these are now being finalized and not yet approved for release, INR can only highlight the contents of this concise, authoritative document, which should become an indispensable handbook on AIDS for nurses and other health personnel when available.
  • (12) To the practicing radiologist, it may offer a concise review of the subject and facilitate upgrading operative cholangiography in his hospital.
  • (13) Certain elements are of prime importance in the success of the development of such a service: (1) organization--concise knowledge of objectives, cost, and benefits, with emphasis on employee satisfaction; (2) staff--selection of interested, imaginative medical personnel and use of expanded role nurses as full-time health providers requiring a minimum of direct medical supervision; (3) collaboration--participation by both medical and nursing professions, educators as well as clinicians, in the formulation and direction of the service.
  • (14) Fotofil had lower values of modulus of elasticity, water sorption, and linear coefficient of thermal expansion than Concise.
  • (15) The description of psychophysical data in this concise quantifiable manner may offer better insight into physiological processes contributing to the appreciation of effort.
  • (16) Concise and quick delineation of cystic from solid masses is necessary.
  • (17) The result is a coherent, concise, accurate and rich explanation of Heart Failure Programs' diagnostic hypotheses.
  • (18) Because we are actively working with government, at our cost, to make sure that the legislative footprint we are working with is as clear and concise as it can possibly be."
  • (19) One such benefit is the ability to request and receive rapidly, a concise, yet complete legal summary of a patient's hospital course.
  • (20) But the frailty of a three-minute song – the concise honesty of that expression – amazes me and turns me into a bucket of jealousy.

Terse


Definition:

  • (superl.) Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
  • (superl.) Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.
  • (superl.) Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lossmaking chain of supermarkets, funeral homes and pharmacies said in a terse two-line statement that Stuart Ramsay had left the board with immediate effect after "an independent report, and at the request of the board".
  • (2) He replied tersely: “Di María is a fine player but we would still have won that game.” Martino called his winger “one of the five best players in the world” and said his country had missed him sorely in the final.
  • (3) A humiliated Trierweiler was publicly ditched by Hollande in a terse 18-word statement announcing that he was “putting an end” to their “shared life”.
  • (4) In a terse statement the New IRA said Kearney was shot after the group carried out "an investigation".
  • (5) "I think the figures are somewhat overstated in this country," he says tersely, "as it's generally the same three scientists making their voices heard.
  • (6) There is a significant gap between the plans of the Greek authorities and requirements of the commission, ECB and IMF European commission statement In a tersely worded statement, the European commission declared talks would resume when euro area finance ministers gather in Luxembourg on Thursday.
  • (7) Manchester United manager Ed Woodward is reported to have sent Chelsea a "terse" letter, warning them to cease and desist in their efforts to sign Wayne Rooney .
  • (8) Fielding questions from journalists after the game, Altidore opened with a terse stock defense, stating: "It doesn’t matter how I play as long as we win".
  • (9) A senior government official was more terse: "We don't want to see China patrolling the East and South China seas as though they think they own them."
  • (10) Terry, meanwhile, issued a terse statement in response.
  • (11) From the plague's ominous annunciation, the first dead rat, rotting on the turn of the stair in the protagonist's apartment block, to the end of the first act and the prefect's terse command, "close the town", plot fits meaning with tailored perfection.
  • (12) "They have cattle and now they have one of my boys," he wrote in a terse press release.
  • (13) In answers that ranged from terse monosyllables to rambling monologues, Cayne said he wished the Securities and Exchange Commission had looked into the way rumours about Bear were spread: "Regardless of whether there was a conspiracy or not, the bottom line is the firm came under attack."
  • (14) Head coach Doc Rivers has responded to the possibility with a very terse "it's stupid".
  • (15) Additionally, while the answers were terse, the immediacy and intimacy of the president's responses offered a glimpse into his mind that might never have been exposed so starkly in more formal circumstances.
  • (16) Dan Ashworth, David Gill and I have carried out a thorough process in the last three weeks and ultimately we could not look beyond Sam as the ideal candidate.” Allardyce performed a minor miracle to save Sunderland from relegation after succeeding Dick Advocaat last October but, in a terse statement which will interpreted as churlish, the Wearside club failed to reference his contribution, let alone thank him or offer their good wishes.
  • (17) Westminster slumbers in recess, voters are on holiday or reeling from the latesthorrors of Isis – and Nick Clegg tersely announces Lord Rennard has been reinstated as a party member , all disciplinary action miraculously evaporated.
  • (18) "There is no truth to these baseless allegations," Egypt's foreign ministry said in a terse statement on Sunday.
  • (19) This time the drone attack was successful , from the US perspective, and al-Shabaab issued a terse statement: "The martyr received what he wished for and what he went out for."
  • (20) As for that last line, millions of voices cried out with “duh” and went back to exhaling tersely through their noses.