What's the difference between highwayman and procrustes?

Highwayman


Definition:

  • (n.) One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Liverpool have finally decided that giving £32.5m to Aston Villa for Christian Benteke is the equivalent of jumping out of the carriage into the roadside bushes and meekly handing their wares to the hiding highwayman.
  • (2) In particular, seeking an injunction before you offer FRAND licensing terms is the highwayman's method and breaches the standards agreement.
  • (3) The 210 bus winds up the hill to Hampstead Heath in north London , passing Harry Styles’s house on one side, a 17th-century highwayman’s inn on the other, under the overhanging branches of the ancient oaks and sycamores.
  • (4) Like Adam Ant’s dandy highwayman , he’d have been in his element in the 17th century.

Procrustes


Definition:

  • (n.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Data were input to generalized Procrustes analysis to obtain a perceptual map of the products for each subject and a consensus product map.
  • (2) Finite-element scaling analysis (FESA), generalized procrustes analysis (GPA), and Euclidean distance matrix analysis (EDMA) are applied in a two-dimensional study of craniofacial growth in normal children and those affected with Crouzon syndrome.
  • (3) The second one is a kind of Procrustes rotation in inter-battery factor analysis.
  • (4) Removing TAP closely reproduced the 5-factor model in both principal-components and procrustes analyses.

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