What's the difference between epitomize and typify?

Epitomize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.
  • (v. t.) To diminish, as by cutting off something; to curtail; as, to epitomize words.

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.

Typify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Algorithms that were based on any of the alternate definitions of localized reduction in retinal sensitivity performed equally well, which suggests that any of these approaches is useful in searching for glaucomatous visual loss as typified by this database.
  • (2) We have studied the expression of genes that typify osteogenic differentiation in mandibular condyles during in vitro cultivation.
  • (3) The first portion is typified by the presence of short apical tubules, variously sized apical vacuoles, and numerous lysosomes.
  • (4) Alternative splicing generates various Ly-5 glycoprotein isoforms of the cell surface that typify different cell lineages and stages of hematopoietic differentiation in the mouse; exons 4-6 are incorporated to generate a B-cell isoform (B220) and excluded from a T-cell isoform (T200), the other coding exons (3 and 7-33) being shared.
  • (5) The Ly-5 system of the mouse is expressed exclusively by hematopoietic cells and comprises a series of glycoprotein isoforms that typify different hematopoietic cell lineages.
  • (6) Aspects of this experimental model typify cutaneous herpes simplex disease of man.
  • (7) The agents could be divided into 4 classes: (1) agents having no effect upon transmission at this cholinergic junction; (2) agents of a class typified by curare, which depressed all EPSPs of a train to the same extent, and which are believed to be acting in this system solely as competitive postsynaptic blockers; (3) agents typified by acetylcholine and carbachol (ACh class), which selectively depressed earlier EPSPs of a train more than later EPSPs and which appear to act by reducing the fractional release of transmitter; (4) agents typified by trimethidinium (trimethidinium class), which selectively depress later EPSPs of a train more than earlier EPSPs and which appear to act by reducing the rate of transmitter supply into the readily releasable pool.
  • (8) Three types of flavones are distinguished on the basis of their effect on the constitutive and polycyclic hydrocarbon-induced rat hepatic enzyme activity: (a) the 5,6- and 7,8-benzoflavones and their more hydrophobic derivatives inhibit the induced enzyme and increase or do not affect the constitutive enzyme activity; (b) derivatives typified by the 4'-hydroxylated benzoflavones similarly decrease both induced and constitutive activities; (c) polyhydroxyflavones inhibit the constitutive enzyme more than the induced enzyme.
  • (9) Despite the diversity of the NK target repertoire, it is typified by cells of relatively immature phenotype.
  • (10) This typifies how gamers have felt right down to their core.
  • (11) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.
  • (12) Studies that try to associate immunoinflammatory disease, typified by rheumatoid arthritis, and malignancy have been limited by several important methodologic difficulties.
  • (13) Garry White, chief investment commentator at Charles Stanley, says that episode typifies M&S's new problem: "They got the product right, but didn't get the buying right.
  • (14) Older persons moving to retirement destinations like Florida should typify the 1st move, whereas those moving from Florida to northern urban areas should typify the 2nd and 3rd moves.
  • (15) Data selected from a study in differential GSR conditioning suggest, for the present purposes, the desirability of a trichotomous classification of GSRs depending upon the response rates which typify the nonresponse state of a particular S under a particular set of conditions.
  • (16) The case presented here typifies the clinical manifestations of this entity and illustrates appropriate management.
  • (17) The rise of Pret typifies the improvements in British eating over the last generation.
  • (18) A serine-containing glycopeptidolipid antigen isolated from Mycobacterium xenopi typified a new class of mycobacterial glycopeptidolipid antigens devoid of the C-mycoside core structure [Rivière, M., & Puzo, G. (1991) J. Biol.
  • (19) Osteoblastic osteitis is a rare kind of bone infection typified by a proliferative reaction of the periosteum and by exuberant bone formation.
  • (20) Conversion from an acute productive phase of infection to a chronic, nonproductive phase of infection in this model has ultrastructural correlates that appear to typify persistent paramyxoviral infections of brain.