What's the difference between encyclopedia and thesaurus?

Encyclopedia


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Encyclopaedia

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indeed, as the Russian encyclopedia for its practitioners concluded: “Information war … is in many places replacing standard war.” The idea was clear enough.
  • (2) During the survey, the common folk medicine plants used by women were recorded and Ayurvedic and Unani drug encyclopedias were consulted for the antireproductive potential of these plants.
  • (3) Named Siri after the startup company which developed it and was bought by Apple in April 2010, the voice activation also links through to a non-Google search engine, Wolfram Alpha, which offers a type of online encyclopedia database of facts and theories.
  • (4) How could we get millions of people to work together, across borders and perspectives, without pay, to build a reliable, accurate encyclopedia?
  • (5) Overnight, there were more than 100 modifications to the online encyclopedia’s page on Haut Ogooué, a Gabonese province.
  • (6) The proliferation of weblogs, and particularly the success of the user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia, prove that democratising the online space can have wide-ranging and legitimate uses.
  • (7) Information war was less about methods of persuasion and more about “influencing social relations” But when I began to pore over recent Russian military theory – in history books and journals – the strange language of the encyclopedia began to make more sense.
  • (8) And later: "I'm a human being, not a walking encyclopedia."
  • (9) It was the loss of his childhood encyclopedia that brought home the heartbreak.
  • (10) They are doing it every minute of every day in indexed web searches, in blogs, in books, in email, in maps, in news, in photos, in videos, in their own encyclopedia.
  • (11) In one instance "Blame Liverpool fans" was anonymously added to the Hillsborough section of the online encyclopedia.
  • (12) Albucasis taught medicine at the university of Cordoba and published an encyclopedia of medicine comprising 30 volumes, the last one dealing with surgery.
  • (13) So the state doesn’t switch on its self-defence mechanisms.” If regular war is about actual guns and missiles, the encyclopedia continues, “information war is supple, you can never predict the angle or instruments of an attack”.
  • (14) Perhaps the encyclopedia, and talk of “invisible radiation” that could override “biological defences”, was simply one more bluff – like the fake nuclear weapons that were paraded through Red Square in order to lead overeager western analysts down a hall of mirrors.
  • (15) This paper describes such a system (a "diagnostic encyclopedia workstation"), which provides information to the pathologist engaged in daily diagnostic practice.
  • (16) The only reason we know about this block is because of how Wikipedia handles its own blacklist – a list of IP addresses that have been used recently in vandalism against the encyclopedia.
  • (17) The first image was the one most preferred by the patient; the second was the one determined by the experimenter to represent the most successful mastery of developmental stages according to the schemata outlined by Erickson (International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, Vol.
  • (18) "The Merck Index", an internationally recognized encyclopedia of drugs, chemicals, and biologicals was produced by the traditional method for eight consecutive editions.
  • (19) The revelations come after it emerged that Shapps had changed his entry in the online encyclopedia to correct the number of O-levels he obtained.
  • (20) The "Hager", undoubtedly a practical, indispensable encyclopedia of more than 10,000 pages is to be found in every German pharmacy.

Thesaurus


Definition:

  • (n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the basis of a dermatopathology thesaurus with more than 200 different diagnoses, the system allows quick access to diagnostic and patient data and supplies rapid seaching and sorting facilities.
  • (2) The flexible design of the thesaurus facilitates frequent revision and addition of new terminology.
  • (3) The thesaurus is built on keywords or key-expressions.
  • (4) We have previously described a user-interactive rule-based computer program (Dyna-SaurI) designed for dynamic thesaurus integration, and demonstrated its efficacy on integrating dermatological subsets of the MeSH and SNOMED thesauruses.
  • (5) The most striking example is Icelandic, whose thesaurus hasn't changed much since the 12th century.
  • (6) A thesaurus has been developed to serve as the integrating unit for the computerized information storage and retrieval system of the Vision Information Center.
  • (7) It was conformed to and conjugated with the thesaurus in the field.
  • (8) If I ever got round to writing one, both would have prominent entries in my personal flavour thesaurus.
  • (9) He's a fearsome creation, a thesaurus of withering insults, with a temperament that can only be measured in degrees of boiling rage.
  • (10) I finally pull the tire off, and I look at the inside of the tire, and it reads: ‘Matsumoto Tire Company – We Are Obstinacy!’” I mention the tire, because it illuminates the experience of reading Paul Ryan’s brand-new don’t-call-it-a-campaign book, The Way Forward: an hours-long ordeal with an epistemically locked-shut Mad Libs thesaurus accident that ultimately says “screw you” as sunnily as possible.
  • (11) Maybe it’s constant the job ad “buzzwords” that make you want to tear out all the pages of a thesaurus and papier-mâché them in front of the recruiter.
  • (12) External formatting by semantic fields allows the physicians to attribute medical expressions dynamically to concepts of the thesaurus.
  • (13) A thesaurus can be used to define the units in relationship to the examination methods described.
  • (14) These are literature selection, thesaurus maintenance and indexing.
  • (15) A hierarchical structure was placed on the terms to produce a thesaurus typical of the sort often used in the indexing and retrieving of documents.
  • (16) The numerical coding system used in the thesaurus permits seven levels of specificity; this specificity is required for depth of indexing, as well as to limit the retrieval to those bibliographic citations which are relevant to a highly specific search request.
  • (17) Finally, all of the symptom terms were incorporated into a thesaurus from which the questionnaire was derived.
  • (18) The original system has been improved to provide a thesaurus processor with added capabilities for expanding search request terms and a newly developed set of search programs with user options that make complex and more accurate retrievals possible.
  • (19) This paper describes the process of preparing the thesaurus and presents an evaluation of its coverage of the "MEDINFO-86 Proceedings."
  • (20) Modification of the thesaurus is expected to have a far-reaching impact on the retrieval of information in nursing and allied health.