What's the difference between emend and redress?

Emend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Emended diagnoses of the Monocotylinae and Monocotyle are provided.
  • (2) fam., with pseudosuckers, had its monophyly supported by characters present in the newly named prodiplostomulum metacercaria; and the emended Diplostomidae, also with pseudosuckers, had the most derived states and its monophyly was supported by characters present in the diplostomulum.
  • (3) The genus Helicobacter is also emended; Campylobacter cinaedi and Campylobacter fennelliae are included in this genus as Helicobacter cinaedi comb.
  • (4) (type strain NCDO 2227 [= ATCC 27335]), and Streptococcus anginosus (emend.)
  • (5) Therefore, we propose recognition of Streptococcus constellatus (emend.)
  • (6) A new, insect-associated species of the emended genus Sterigmatomyces, St. wingfieldii, is described.
  • (7) The account of the life history of P. echinus is emended accordingly and differences in structure and behavior between that species and P. pseudoechinus are described.
  • (8) fam., the emended Diplostomidae, and the Strigeidae as a monophyletic assemblage.
  • (9) n., and G. amadai Yamaguti 1937, the type species, allows emendation of the description of that genus and supression of Glomericirrinae Yamaguti 1958.
  • (10) The family Diploposthidae is suppressed and the family Acoleidae is emended to include the 4 genera previously placed in Diploposthidae.
  • (11) An emended description of the genus Desulfotomaculum is proposed which includes the new bacterium as the species Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans.
  • (12) The generic diagnosis of Calliobothrium is emended to include this species with 2 rather than 3 posthook loculi.
  • (13) As his biographer Martin Stannard points out, "Of all the pre-war manuscripts, that of Scoop is the most heavily emended, and further revision is revealed by the substantial structural changes which appear when it is compared with the printed text."
  • (14) The host range of phage JHJ-1, on non-lysogenic strains, was emended to include all of the Saccharopolyspora strains tested; the host range of phage JHJ-2 was shown to be identical to JHJ-1.
  • (15) We propose that the emended genus Campylobacter should be limited to Campylobacter fetus, Campylobacter hyointestinalis, Campylobacter concisus, Campylobacter mucosalis, Campylobacter sputorum, Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, Campylobacter lari, and "Campylobacter upsaliensis."
  • (16) The genus Serpentostephanus Sudarikov, 1961 is placed in the subfamily Szydatinae Dubois, 1938, the diagnosis of which is emended.
  • (17) Mastigamoebid amoeboid flagellates of the genera Mastigamoeba, Mastigella, Mastigina, and possibly Dinamoeba are placed with Pelomyxa within the order Pelobiontida Page, 1976, emend., containing two families.
  • (18) The family diagnosis of the Disculicepitidae, and the description of D. pileatus are emended.
  • (19) Emended description of the type strain of S. capsulata is presented.
  • (20) (type strain NCTC 10713 [= ATCC 33397]) as distinct species and propose an emended description of each of these taxa.

Redress


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To dress again.
  • (v. t.) To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
  • (v. t.) To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
  • (v. t.) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
  • (n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
  • (n.) A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
  • (2) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
  • (3) He made his political base in this western province, which has long felt sneered at: Harper has spent his political career redressing the balance.
  • (4) We deeply regret any instance which led to the Financial Ombudsman Service receiving incorrect or incomplete information from us.” Clydesdale is now reviewing all PPI complaints handled before August 2014 and will pay redress to any affected customers.
  • (5) It has a code setting out the high ethical standards of the best in British journalism, a complaints procedure which is easily accessible and fair, and real teeth to ensure protection and redress for citizens."
  • (6) First and foremost, if there are living victims of torture who seek redress from the British government they must be treated with dignity, no matter how long ago those abuses occurred.
  • (7) Our data appeared to indicate that messages on the four selected health topics were not being properly and accurately conveyed and suggestions aimed at redressing this situation were put forward.
  • (8) Our How to Rent guide helps tenants know their rights and responsibilities, and letting agents are now required to belong to a redress scheme so landlords and tenants have somewhere to go if they get a raw deal.” “This government has kept strong protections to guard families against the threat of homelessness.
  • (9) Dennis de Jong, managing director at UFX.com , said the chancellor “has a lot of work to do” to redress the trade deficit.
  • (10) Half a dozen times now they have produced elaborate redesigns of the old, discredited Press Complaints Commission , each subtly different but none delivering the simple, effective, independent redress that Leveson said was necessary.
  • (11) This concept has huge implications, in particular the need to redress the balance of two generations' legacy of car-based planning: the devastating effect on our inner city areas - which have seen a mass exodus to the suburbs - cannot be ignored.
  • (12) By January 2013, more than 70 Britons had contacted lawyers to seek redress .
  • (13) The right not to be imprisoned without a fair trial has become the centrepiece of respect for the rule of law all around the world, and yet, when Ms Lynch stated at Runnymede that the fundamental principles of the Magna Carta have “given hopes to those who face oppression” and have “given a voice to those yearning for the redress of wrongs,” it was impossible not to think of Shaker Aamer, and others in Guantánamo, also “yearning for the redress of wrongs,” but finding that yearning repeatedly unfulfilled.
  • (14) It said the issues were "major factors in the UK's poor productivity levels", and called for a workplace commission to redress what it said were three decades of misaligned skills policy.
  • (15) This part of the article directs attention to how the courts respond when a physician, aggrieved by an adverse determination with regard to appointment, reappointment, or clinical privileges (credentialing) by the hospital based on medical peer review, seeks redress in the courts.
  • (16) His plan to redress the balance: meeting the Emir .
  • (17) In outlining these two approaches, this article shows how both increasingly attend to the place of the mother to the neglect of the father in the genesis of anorexia--a shift of perspective somewhat redressed by systemic family therapy.
  • (18) Recent surveys show that the public – in Britain, and elsewhere – feel that it may be time to redress the balance.
  • (19) And so it makes sense that there was no redress for her son from a “justice” system that works hand in hand with the police who do the hunting.
  • (20) However the compensation element of the scheme offers no extra redress for clients who may have lost their life savings up to 11 years ago and suffered the knock-on effects to their cost of living, according to information given by the bank’s chief executive on Thursday.

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