What's the difference between fair and legible?

Fair


Definition:

  • (superl.) Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.
  • (superl.) Pleasing to the eye; handsome; beautiful.
  • (superl.) Without a dark hue; light; clear; as, a fair skin.
  • (superl.) Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; favorable; -- said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.; as, a fair sky; a fair day.
  • (superl.) Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unincumbered; open; direct; -- said of a road, passage, etc.; as, a fair mark; in fair sight; a fair view.
  • (superl.) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
  • (superl.) Characterized by frankness, honesty, impartiality, or candor; open; upright; free from suspicion or bias; equitable; just; -- said of persons, character, or conduct; as, a fair man; fair dealing; a fair statement.
  • (superl.) Pleasing; favorable; inspiring hope and confidence; -- said of words, promises, etc.
  • (superl.) Distinct; legible; as, fair handwriting.
  • (superl.) Free from any marked characteristic; average; middling; as, a fair specimen.
  • (adv.) Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably.
  • (n.) Fairness, beauty.
  • (n.) A fair woman; a sweetheart.
  • (n.) Good fortune; good luck.
  • (v. t.) To make fair or beautiful.
  • (v. t.) To make smooth and flowing, as a vessel's lines.
  • (n.) A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade.
  • (n.) A festival, and sale of fancy articles. erc., usually for some charitable object; as, a Grand Army fair.
  • (n.) A competitive exhibition of wares, farm products, etc., not primarily for purposes of sale; as, the Mechanics' fair; an agricultural fair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
  • (2) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (3) Exposure to whole cigarette smoke from reference cigarettes results in the prompt (peak activity is 6 hrs), but fairly weak (similar to 2 fold), induction of murine pulmonary microsomal monooxygenase activity.
  • (4) Since he was created, he has appeared at several robotic fairs across China, but spends most of his time in deep meditation on an office shelf in Longquan.
  • (5) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
  • (6) So is the mock courtroom promising “justice and fairness”.
  • (7) Reduced mineral absorption is fairly well documented and has sound theoretical support from basic chemistry.
  • (8) Eight of the UK's biggest supermarkets have signed up to a set of principles following concerns that they were "failing to operate within the spirit of the law" over special offers and promotions for food and drink, the Office of Fair Trading has said.
  • (9) Caries also developed in rats inoculated with reference S. mutans strains BHTR and FAIR (type b) that had been maintained in the laboratories for many years.
  • (10) The 61-year-old paid to transport prize-winning children to the fair in St Thomas and funded their accommodation.
  • (11) "We knew people would be interested in the announcement, but it's fair to say that the scale of the excitement, right across the world, took us all by surprise.
  • (12) Fairly frequently the patients complained about mucosal dryness and sporadically about dyspeptic symptoms, but these symptoms were not disturbing the course of the treatment.
  • (13) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
  • (14) 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.
  • (15) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
  • (16) He always had a logical approach to his arguments and I would have described him as fair at the time.
  • (17) Progressive politics must also take into account fairness between, as well as within, generations.
  • (18) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
  • (19) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
  • (20) It was found by this HPLC that the amino groups of PZP3 hardly reacted with FITC, whereas those of PZP1 and 2 fairly reacted, reflecting the organization of these families in the zona structure.

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.