What's the difference between lingo and thesaurus?

Lingo


Definition:

  • (n.) Language; speech; dialect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chronic pain patients evidenced lower scores on all Harris and Lingoes Sc subscales, except for the Bizarre Sensory Experiences subscale on which they scored significantly higher than the psychiatric groups.
  • (2) Substantial genetic correspondences also existed for Harris-Lingoes content subscales, with fewer correspondences between adoptees and their adoptive mothers.
  • (3) Some have even altered the lingo and banned the word “beneficiary”, opting for “client” instead.
  • (4) Charting the shopping and mating rituals of Manhattan's female socialites, it became not only a bestseller but an era-defining work responsible for introducing lingo such as "toxic bachelor" to women worldwide.
  • (5) Lamb's page on the BBC website even offers a dictionary so that listeners might gen up on "Lamby's lingo".
  • (6) He spoke the lingo and he danced the samba and he always had a soft spot for the underdog … Ashes to ashes and dust to beaches."
  • (7) Harris and Lingoes' (1955) six PD subscales were assessed empirically for their convergent validity and for their utility to discriminate amongst male offenders on the two outcome measures of successful completion of sentences at a correctional halfway house and reincarceration at a 1-year follow-up.
  • (8) Predictor variables included scores on the five Harris-Lingoes Psychopathic-Deviate subscales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R scores, and sex, age, parent, and sibling information.
  • (9) subscales of Psychological Denial and Body Concern, and the five Harris-Lingoes (1955) subscales of Scale 3 were analyzed.
  • (10) Judges developed more content categories per scale than Harris and Lingoes, but showed relatively little agreement on item groupings.
  • (11) I didn't really need to learn any lingo but I tried to convey their sense of persistence, where they ask questions and piece together a puzzle.
  • (12) Distributions of all possible split-half combinations were computed for selected Harris-Lingoes subscales with few items.
  • (13) Wiggins, Harris and Lingoes, and Serkownek Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scores were used to predict Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI) scores in a 100-patient sample.
  • (14) In addition, MMPI data from 1,315 normal adolescents, collected at the Mayo Foundation, and from 217 normal adolescents, collected in Norfolk, Virginia, are evaluated in relation to adult normative values on the Harris-Lingoes (Harris & Lingoes, 1955) content subscales to identify unique characteristics of adolescents' response patterns.
  • (15) 5.03pm GMT Those savvy internet-types over at the Associated Press have put together a "glossary" of Twitter terms, because they reckon that "Twitter-specific lingo that could look like alphabet soup to the uninitiated".
  • (16) Two multidimensional scaling procedures, INDSCAL (Carroll & Chang, 1970) and SSAI-MINISSA (Guttman, 1968; Lingoes, 1965), were applied to the similarity data, yielding flavor spaces or maps which were similar to one another.
  • (17) During moments of rest, the police on my protection detail would be hunched over iPads watching and talking the same strange lingo.
  • (18) Mexican American and Anglo American's performance on the Wiggins Content Scales, Harris-Lingoes subscales, and Serkownek subscales was assessed in a college student population.
  • (19) But where did BuzzFeed learn its hypermodern slangy lingo?
  • (20) She followed him around the country: "I do disgusting work now, do feel sorry for me, it's in the YMCA canteen and it's very embarrassing because they all copy my voice," both its extraordinary vowels and the racy Mitford lingo.

Thesaurus


Definition:

  • (n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the basis of a dermatopathology thesaurus with more than 200 different diagnoses, the system allows quick access to diagnostic and patient data and supplies rapid seaching and sorting facilities.
  • (2) The flexible design of the thesaurus facilitates frequent revision and addition of new terminology.
  • (3) The thesaurus is built on keywords or key-expressions.
  • (4) We have previously described a user-interactive rule-based computer program (Dyna-SaurI) designed for dynamic thesaurus integration, and demonstrated its efficacy on integrating dermatological subsets of the MeSH and SNOMED thesauruses.
  • (5) The most striking example is Icelandic, whose thesaurus hasn't changed much since the 12th century.
  • (6) A thesaurus has been developed to serve as the integrating unit for the computerized information storage and retrieval system of the Vision Information Center.
  • (7) It was conformed to and conjugated with the thesaurus in the field.
  • (8) If I ever got round to writing one, both would have prominent entries in my personal flavour thesaurus.
  • (9) He's a fearsome creation, a thesaurus of withering insults, with a temperament that can only be measured in degrees of boiling rage.
  • (10) I finally pull the tire off, and I look at the inside of the tire, and it reads: ‘Matsumoto Tire Company – We Are Obstinacy!’” I mention the tire, because it illuminates the experience of reading Paul Ryan’s brand-new don’t-call-it-a-campaign book, The Way Forward: an hours-long ordeal with an epistemically locked-shut Mad Libs thesaurus accident that ultimately says “screw you” as sunnily as possible.
  • (11) Maybe it’s constant the job ad “buzzwords” that make you want to tear out all the pages of a thesaurus and papier-mâché them in front of the recruiter.
  • (12) External formatting by semantic fields allows the physicians to attribute medical expressions dynamically to concepts of the thesaurus.
  • (13) A thesaurus can be used to define the units in relationship to the examination methods described.
  • (14) These are literature selection, thesaurus maintenance and indexing.
  • (15) A hierarchical structure was placed on the terms to produce a thesaurus typical of the sort often used in the indexing and retrieving of documents.
  • (16) The numerical coding system used in the thesaurus permits seven levels of specificity; this specificity is required for depth of indexing, as well as to limit the retrieval to those bibliographic citations which are relevant to a highly specific search request.
  • (17) Finally, all of the symptom terms were incorporated into a thesaurus from which the questionnaire was derived.
  • (18) The original system has been improved to provide a thesaurus processor with added capabilities for expanding search request terms and a newly developed set of search programs with user options that make complex and more accurate retrievals possible.
  • (19) This paper describes the process of preparing the thesaurus and presents an evaluation of its coverage of the "MEDINFO-86 Proceedings."
  • (20) Modification of the thesaurus is expected to have a far-reaching impact on the retrieval of information in nursing and allied health.