What's the difference between legibility and readable?

Legibility


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being legible; legibleness.

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.

Readable


Definition:

  • (a.) Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of 185 with readable histology, 14.6% were clinically and histologically abnormal; 19.5% were clinically abnormal but histologically normal; and 15.7% were clinically normal and histologically abnormal.
  • (2) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
  • (3) A computer program, computer-readable model-file and computer-based 3D printer can (in theory) encapsulate the expertise of a skilled machinist and deploy it on demand wherever a 3D printer is to be found.
  • (4) Literary agent Andrew Kidd said: "I have nothing against readability but some books are more challenging.
  • (5) Now that these sequences have been identified for many genes and are available in computer-readable form, scientists can analyze these data and search for patterns in an attempt to learn more about the regulatory functions of the gene.
  • (6) Who knows, it may even be as readable as the real thing.
  • (7) To compare the readability and sensitivity of a new guaiac faecal occult blood test, HemoccultSENSA, with those of a standard guaiac-based test, Hemoccult, in a normal working environment.
  • (8) Health professionals can assist in the educational process if they have the tools to assess the readability of varied educational materials.
  • (9) Radiologic diagnosis and real diagnosis coincided to a relatively high degree provided that the radiographs were readable.
  • (10) It was ambitious, experimental and sometimes downright odd – but seductively, compulsively readable too.
  • (11) Linguistic analysis shows that the information is written in a difficult style with a median readability index of 48.2.
  • (12) During the last years of her life, Shearer wrote book reviews (not just of dance books) for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which were immensely readable though not celebrated for their generosity towards authors.
  • (13) A sample of health care literature produced for parents was analysed, using the Flesch method, for readability and human interest.
  • (14) With this new method, many samples were analyzed simultaneously, and readable results were obtained in 12 to 15 hr.
  • (15) Much of the row over the shortlist has stemmed from Rimington's own prioritisation of "readability" in the judging criteria.
  • (16) Each varied on a combination of the two study factors, but were similar in content, length, style, and readability.
  • (17) Latham is angry, outrageous, insulting – with a lifelong chip on his shoulder – as well as astute, brave and far more readable than most.
  • (18) The results of a subjective evaluation of readability of scintigrams with grades 1-5 are unequivocally more favourable for MDP and HEDP (2.3 and 2.4) against PYP (3.1).
  • (19) Rapid interrogation and analysis (in the form of tables or easily readable case listings) is possible, and the format of the database permits direct comparison with statistics for nonfatal hospital-treated accidents recorded by the Home Accident Surveillance System.
  • (20) The most common problems associated with high readability scores were the use of 'unfamiliar' words, long words and long sentences.