What's the difference between illegible and illiterate?

Illegible


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
  • (2) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
  • (3) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
  • (4) Chadwick felt that Customs and Trading Standards needed to continue their war on illegal tobacco – if not, efforts to tackle smoking could be undermined.
  • (5) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (6) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
  • (7) A fortnight ago the two countries signed a US$27 million deal to tackle deforestation on the island of Sumatra - a key problem in Indonesia where 80 per cent of emissions come from deforestation, both by legal and illegal loggers.
  • (8) The campaign has used mobile billboards warning illegal immigrants to "go home or face arrest".
  • (9) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
  • (10) The announcement comes amid mounting frustration in the international community over Israel’s continued settlement activity, regarded by many countries as illegal.
  • (11) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
  • (12) Galli said there were already about 200,000 hospitalisations of women who have undergone a clandestine termination every year, and a suspected 1 million illegal abortions before the epidemic.
  • (13) The immigration minister, Mark Harper, said: in a statement: "Today's operations highlight the routine work we are carrying out every day to stamp out illegal working.
  • (14) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
  • (15) Euthanasia – killing someone painlessly, usually to relieve suffering – is also illegal.
  • (16) But illegal action will only ruin any chance of dialogue with Tehran.
  • (17) After five days watching birds illegally shot down and becoming embroiled in tense stand-offs with the police and hunters, Packham was summoned to a police station and interviewed for five hours.
  • (18) "The government will ban qat so that we can protect vulnerable members of our communities and send a clear message to our international partners and qat smugglers that the UK is serious about stopping the illegal trafficking of qat."
  • (19) Last week, Theresa May announced that, as part of her immigration bill , private landlords will be required, under the threat of a £3,000 fine, to ensure that "illegal immigrants" are not given access to their properties.
  • (20) Lieberman said: "[Amazon's] decision to cut off WikiLeaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material.

Illiterate


Definition:

  • (a.) Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The majority of children came from low socio-economic homes (61%) with mostly illiterate or semi-literate mothers.
  • (2) Visual acuity results in patients able to provide verbal responses to the illiterate E, Allen card, or Snellen line chart testing showed improvement in most cases.
  • (3) Every head of household – even illiterate – has at least one.
  • (4) The [commission] has done work on a massive scale to educate voters, especially the vulnerable ones – illiterate, poor, marginalised – as well as women and youth,” HS Brahma, an election commissioner, told reporters.
  • (5) The most important aspect of reaching people at the grassroots level is to ensure their understanding by using the most appropriate language, and by ensuring that the largely illiterate population will, nevertheless, be well served by print and electronic mass media.
  • (6) Subjects were chosen from illiterate and below matriculate level; matriculate to graduate level; and graduate and above.
  • (7) Illiterate women, however, cannot benefit from such remainders.
  • (8) Mean differences between groups with very high and very low psychoticism scores on tests of general intelligence and Persian language are larger than those between groups with college-educated versus illiterate or semiliterate fathers.
  • (9) A study of 28 midwives from different regions in Kenya in 1980 found that most were illiterate women between 24 and 68 years olds received no monetary gain, had a variety of occupational backgrounds, and provided varying amounts of advice but little pre- or postnatal care.
  • (10) The attitude of illiterate smokers was encouraging, as 83.6% were willing to quit smoking.
  • (11) @SciDevNet_SA Don't be discouraged by illiteracy: Curiously, it is illiterate Indians who are making the best use of the digital technology on mobile phones equipped with cameras.
  • (12) 15% of the educated women, but 25% of the illiterates were less than 1.53 m tall.
  • (13) Ninety-one patients were studied (25 illiterate and 66 literate).
  • (14) As she was illiterate and unable to record her own history, little is definitively known about many details of Tubman’s life, Larson said.
  • (15) She could not write her story because, as she revealed during the trial, she was more or less illiterate.
  • (16) Illiterate Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) were trained to diagnose pneumonia in children using their visual judgement of tachypnoea.
  • (17) A revised version of an illiterate antenatal card has been developed from 1987-89 in Mali.
  • (18) There were 173 (63.6%) females and 99 (36.4%) males, among whom 66 (M53 + F13) were smokers; 36.4% of males and 63% of females were illiterate.
  • (19) He claimed an earlier investigation revealed these groups had received up to $100m from abroad, with the money deposited in different Egyptian banks using names of illiterate Egyptians for fake accounts.
  • (20) College accused of 'luring vulnerable students' with free laptops Read more The ACCC chairman, Rod Sims, told Guardian Australia: “We are making allegations that have got to be tested in court but, that said, this sort of behaviour is about as concerning as we run across.” Last month the ACCC initiated a case against the Sydney-based Unique International College, accusing it of “unconscionable conduct” including targeting vulnerable and illiterate people with offers of free laptop computers if they signed up to diploma courses.