What's the difference between gradus and handbook?
Gradus
Definition:
(n.) A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The author reports about he indications, procedures and results of surgical bronchoscopic interventions in 10 patients with bronchial papilloma due to broncholithiasis, primary amyloid tumor, tracheal adenoma, oesophageal carcinoma perforated into the trachea, bronchial chondroma, tracheal haemangioma, bronchoadenitis tuberculosis perforans, broncholithiasis majoris gradus.
Handbook
Definition:
(n.) A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.
Example Sentences:
(1) By 1996, the party's policy handbook stated that the industry was "of vital importance to the nation's economic performance".
(2) The jurors' handbook for New York's southern district lists critical questions to ask potential jurors, such as whether they "have any personal interest in the case, or know of any reason why they cannot render an impartial verdict?"
(3) But he has proposed that the contract being negotiated identify all school employees as ministers of the church, a change gay rights groups said would put teachers who do not adhere to the beliefs in the handbook at risk of dismissal.
(4) If a general practitioner can remember the few drugs in clinical practice with a narrow therapeutic index, he can consult a handbook before anything else is prescribed.
(5) As these are now being finalized and not yet approved for release, INR can only highlight the contents of this concise, authoritative document, which should become an indispensable handbook on AIDS for nurses and other health personnel when available.
(6) With the death toll across Guinea , Liberia and Sierra Leone topping 5,000 this month, everything from equipment to medical trials to psychology handbooks is being tested, upgraded and refashioned.
(7) At 16 and 17 there are two computer game manuals – Minecraft: Redstone Handbook and Minecraft: Essential Handbook .
(8) It added: “A review of declarations of interest confirmed the CoG did not disclose these on the [2014] annual declaration.” In a letter dated 8 March, the government’s Education Funding Agency said there had been “serious breaches of the academies financial handbook, including serious concerns about financial management, control and governance”.
(9) The International Business Times, Davis and Uzac’s news site, was also described in the handbook as an “Olivet ministry affiliate”.
(10) The authors are aware of other phencyclidine-related hospital admissions but could find no information on phencyclidine in recently published handbooks on drug abuse.
(11) There are bouquets and photographs, that famous Freddie Starr front page framed on the wall, a large blond-wood desk upon which lie a guide to St Lucia, a letter from Boodles the jeweller, and a book cover, which I read upside down: Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman.
(12) The Danish Society for Patient Safety has produced a handbook to increase patient involvement in care, which has been distributed to one in 10 of all households in Denmark.
(13) I don’t mean the Oftsed inspection handbook, which anyone can download from the internet.
(14) It became the handbook of the anti- globalisation protests, and inspired two Radiohead albums .
(15) Data from the literature for solutions, blood, normal tissue, and cancerous tissue are investigated, and predicted fractions are consistent with tissue compositional information available in handbooks.
(16) Psychiatrists in some countries including Britain use the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) published by the World Health Organisation or a combination of both handbooks.
(17) "It's incredibly depressing," said Arthur Raney, a professor of communication at Florida State University and author of The Handbook of Sports and Media .
(18) In a shifting world where political disillusionment is the norm, Brand offers a hopeful handbook of new ways of thinking.
(19) "The Oncogene Handbook," Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp 307-325, 1988; Sonnenberg et al., Neuron 3:359-365, 1989).
(20) There appears to be some confusion over terms used in the handbook issued to medical practitioners.