What's the difference between epitome and paragon?

Epitome


Definition:

  • (n.) A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
  • (n.) A compact or condensed representation of anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The technical view of curriculum epitomized by the Tylerian objectives-based model focuses on measurable, quantifiable outcomes.
  • (2) Israel’s leader epitomizes what Senator J William Fulbright once called “the arrogance of power”.
  • (3) The posited codominant alleles represent the first single-locus component in the polygenic complexes creating susceptibility to seizures and epitomizes the small additive effects classically attributed to such genes.
  • (4) If malnutrition occurs during fetal life, as epitomized by small-for-gestational age infants, the effects on cell-mediated immunity are very significant and long lasting.
  • (5) Many on the Right still view it as the epitome of all that was irresponsible, idiotic and dangerous about the Sixties, while many on the terminally fractured Left still mourn 1968 as the last great moment of revolutionary possibility.
  • (6) The situation described by Goddard illustrates the spread of the issue to working parents in a town known until relatively recently as the epitome of the prosperous and aspirational post-Thatcher working class.
  • (7) What seems the epitome of mundane routine for the average British commuter is being seen as near miraculous in a city where, like Los Angeles, the car is king and the train is nowhere in sight when navigating the sprawling suburbs.
  • (8) To which list I almost forgot to add that epitome of Team Australia achievement, Prince Philip.
  • (9) Clodia Metelli The epitome of the chic, sexy, scandalous aristocrat of 1st century BC Rome, Metelli was supposedly the "Lesbia" to whom the love-lorn poems of Catullus are addressed (and if so, a total ball-breaker).
  • (10) "We have to be flexible to attract more fans," says the besuited Hashimoto, the epitome of the sombre Japanese executive, making clear the company's thinking behind the switch.
  • (11) This is the epitome of personalised therapy,” he said.
  • (12) The budget of 1981 is considered the epitome of soundness, an exercise in rigour that laid the foundations for the strong economic recovery.
  • (13) It produced more people like Tom and Daisy Buchanan – the epitome of the idle rich who people The Great Gatsby – than it did the hard-working rich, aware of their social responsibilities.
  • (14) Our financial sector, which plunged a large swath of humanity into economic turmoil, is perhaps the epitome of all the negative traits associated with modern capitalism.
  • (15) Once optimal stimulus parameters for routine application are determined, the glare pressor test with EEG and polygraphic recording will offer a clinically useful, standardizable method for evaluating the connection between central mechanisms and CV reactivity in professional drivers, a cohort of patients whose occupational activity epitomizes mentally stressful work, and who are at high cardiac risk.
  • (16) No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
  • (17) And though many Puerto Rican voters in Florida are focused on the financial crisis on the island, that doesn’t mean that they’re unconcerned with the rhetoric around immigration and “Mexicans”, as epitomized by statements made by people like Donald Trump .
  • (18) Large parts of Britain's standing army – the epitome of professional values – are being wound up and replaced by part-time reservists.
  • (19) The history of oesophageal atresia and tracheo-oesophageal fistula is a mini history of surgery - "oesophageal atresia is the epitome of modern surgery".
  • (20) To be without legs, and to become the epitome of excellence in the very field where you are not supposed to excel: that is the stuff of legends.

Paragon


Definition:

  • (n.) A companion; a match; an equal.
  • (n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition.
  • (n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence.
  • (n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.
  • (v. t.) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.
  • (v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival.
  • (v. t.) To serve as a model for; to surpass.
  • (v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We compare a "second-generation" immunoenzymometric assay (Tandem-E CKMB II) for creatine kinase (EC 2.7.3.2) MB with its electrophoretic (Beckman Paragon system) determination.
  • (2) Paragon's chief executive, Nigel Terrington, said the £200m facility from Macquarie would now be used to grant new loans and then as the facility was used up, the mortgages would be packaged up and sold off in the securitisation market that dried up in the credit crunch.
  • (3) He said he thought government had to do more to make it easier for people to go green in their daily lives, and admitted that he was not a paragon of virtue in his personal life, even if he was trying to use his car less.
  • (4) Above all, the way he responded to the brutality he had endured, his generosity towards his captors and his lack of desire for revenge against the wider white minority they had served established him as a kind of paragon.
  • (5) The return of Paragon was welcomed by mortgage broker Ray Boulger of John Charcol who said there was pent up demand for such lending from professional landlords, particularly since Lloyds Banking Group pulled back from the market this month.
  • (6) Paragon said provisions for loans at risk of non-payment more than halved to £3.5m from £7.5m a year earlier as new cases of loan arrears fell and customers made payments that were overdue.
  • (7) In contrast, Duncan has been praised as the paragon of selfless basketball, sacrificing his numbers for the good of the team.
  • (8) The overall CV was less than 20% for all methods and isoenzymes, except for LD-4 and LD-5 by the Beckman Paragon, Helena LD-VIS, Gel LDH, Gel PC, and Iso Dot, Gelman LDH Isozyme, and Sebia Hydragel assays, for which it was greater than 20%.
  • (9) An application of the method was demonstrated by measuring contact angles for saline-containing 0 to 2% bovine serum albumin or bovine submaxillary mucin on Silafocon-A (Polycon II), Pasifocon C (Paragon EW), and polymethyl methacrylate (generic PMMA and Paragon 18) lenses.
  • (10) "Told with exquisite ill-temper," was the verdict of John Osborne, not exactly a paragon of good grace himself, on How's That For Telling 'Em, Fat Lady?
  • (11) Paragon, one of the biggest lenders to landlords in the UK, said its “pipeline” of buy-to-let loans has more than doubled in recent months .
  • (12) But riding high above them all, although no longer on a broomstick, is that accomplished paragon of virtue Emma Watson, the 24-year-old English actress still known to millions of fans of the Harry Potter films as Hermione Granger and the winner this spring of the “Most Flawless Woman of the Decade” accolade from the internet news service Buzzfeed.
  • (13) Paragon increased lending to private landlords by almost two-thirds in the first half of the specialist mortgage lender’s financial year as the buy-to-let boom continued.
  • (14) The Beckman Paragon alkaline gel electrophoresis system was evaluated for utility in identification and quantitation of glycosylated hemoglobin in the clinical laboratory setting.
  • (15) We could imagine this paragon of whiteness, soft-spoken and soft around the middle, as a rational actor, spending months after the shooting to carefully prepare for his grand-jury testimony, to repeat his performance in front of George Stephanopoulos for a television interview.
  • (16) The source of what has been called a “swell” of “circumstantial evidence” is the CIA, an agency which has been known to interfere with an election or two itself, and isn’t really a paragon of honesty.
  • (17) For several decades X-ray diffraction studies have been the paragon of biological structure studies at atomic resolution.
  • (18) Fluorosilicone-acrylate polymer lenses adsorb and release the most preservative, while polymethylmethacrylate lenses (Paragon Optical Inc, Mesa, Ariz) adsorb and release the least.
  • (19) Paragon said that the number of borrowers in arrears has continued to fall, and those more than three months behind represented 0.86% of the total order book.
  • (20) Perhaps as a result, Uber is by no means the only paragon of the sharing economy to face legal pressure.