What's the difference between eligible and legible?

Eligible


Definition:

  • (a.) That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.
  • (a.) Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (2) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
  • (3) Between January 1979 and April 1983, 113 children undergoing their first relapse of acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) at any site were registered in Pediatric Oncology Group study 7834; 98 were eligible and evaluable.
  • (4) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
  • (5) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
  • (6) Only subjects 65 years of age or older were eligible for inclusion.
  • (7) The SAA is also the only entity eligible to apply for these funds.
  • (8) Students from low-income backgrounds will be eligible to apply for top-up grants up to a further £3,250, dependant on household income (ie the full £3,250 grant will be available up to a household income of £25,000 and a partial grant up to a household income of £60,000).
  • (9) It was based on 12 publications selected out of 993 eligible.
  • (10) Of 103 eligible children, the quality of recovery was assessed by the Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) at 6 months after injury in 92 patients (86% of series) and at 1 year in 82 patients (73% of series).
  • (11) Approximately 40 per cent of women eligible for prenatal diagnosis did not receive any information from the referring body prior to counselling at our centre.
  • (12) Nancy Davis was a middle-ranking film actor in her 20s when she received her initial introduction to Reagan, having already told a friend that he was top of her list of Hollywood’s eligible bachelors.
  • (13) A questionnaire was administered to parents who volunteered their children for a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial of a drug to treat asthma and to a control group of parents whose children were eligible for the trial but had refused the invitation.
  • (14) Two interview surveys were conducted with AFDC and HR (general assistance) Medicaid eligibles, the first under the fee-for-service system servicing the Medicaid population, and the second 18 months after the introduction of a mandatory, prepaid managed care system for Medicaid beneficiaries.
  • (15) Others who were at the sharp end, including doctors, nurses and even newspaper war correspondents, may also be eligible.
  • (16) The white paper will also force councils to define more precisely eligibility criteria for social care and provide the elderly with information about services in the local area.
  • (17) Eligible subjects include early PD patients (illness duration less than 5 years and in stages I and II), aged 30 to 79, who are not taking or requiring any anti-PD medications.
  • (18) Out of 582 eligible women contacted from the age-sex register, 252 (43%) attended the clinic.
  • (19) In 2013, he told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that the Texas senator might not be eligible to be president.
  • (20) The five eligible patients initially treated with placebo had progressive CFU increases; when three were switched to clarithromycin plus the four drugs, their CFU declined.

Legible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye; plain; -- used of writing or printing; as, a fair, legible manuscript.
  • (a.) Capable of being discovered or understood by apparent marks or indications; as, the thoughts of men are often legible in their countenances.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clinical data thus entered is highly organized, easily legible and retrievable in many ways.
  • (2) It is simple in its application, since the connections can be brought in easily legible graphs.
  • (3) The screen is sharp and clear: websites and book text are easily legible, videos crisp and colourful.
  • (4) is renowed for karyological legible, while the cytologic method (Papanicolau, Shorr, haematoxylon-eosine, etc.)
  • (5) Kirk Douglas wrote to me about his stroke in a spidery, half-legible hand.
  • (6) One disadvantage of using high-contrast letters as test objects when measuring visual acuity is the fact that they are not of equal legibility.
  • (7) Legibility of head-fixed displays in some motion environments is partially dependent upon visual suppression of the vestibuloocular reflex (VOR).
  • (8) Writing speed, legibility ratings, errors in writing and in the secondary auditory task, and a derived measure of the average number of characters held in short-term memory during each sample ("planning unit size") were the dependent variables.
  • (9) Thus, according to DIN and ISO criteria, the legibility of the Kolt-test is not equivalent to the standard Landolt ring.
  • (10) Needless to say, there are points available for neatness – several researchers have suggested that legible work is graded more favourably than messier counterparts.
  • (11) "The legibility will not improve, but rather noticeably worsen, because each pupil will join up the letters however they fancy.
  • (12) The alternative is to think that every part of the city is worth visiting and that the whole city should be open and legible, not just privileging certain sectors.” After patiently listening to all this, a smartphone user might ask: well, who needs physical wayfinding systems any more, when we have technology?
  • (13) Appropriate methods minimize technical difficulties and consistently yield legible SSEPs.
  • (14) The Legible Cities movement takes its inspiration from the American social geographer Kevin A Lynch, who published the seminal book The Image of the City in 1960, introducing the concept of the “legibility” of urban space.
  • (15) The tablet is solidly built, with a clear and sharp screen that makes website and book text easily legible and videos crisp and colourful.
  • (16) The examination findings should, therefore, be legible, readily understandable and complete.
  • (17) Of the total of 968 discrete skeletons excavated, 367 had legible coffin plates giving details of name, age, sex, and date of death.
  • (18) Clinically relevant reports are consistent, reliable, and legible.
  • (19) We constructed a set of objective standards and used them to assess the legibility of warnings on a sample of 37 billboards in Perth, Western Australia.
  • (20) But there are questions to be asked about who gets to write the legible city, points out Leo Hollis , urban theorist and author of Cities Are Good For You.