What's the difference between oenology and penology?

Oenology


Definition:

  • (n.) Knowledge of wine, scientific or practical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ethanol dosage automation, very important in oenology, is very difficult to carry out.
  • (2) On the other side, it has been tested that if one abolished the use of asbestos for filtering wines, they would not be altered from the oenological point of view.
  • (3) In oenology the methods are essentially used for research.
  • (4) Automatic dosages took place a short time ago in oenology laboratories.
  • (5) Montenegrin enthusiasm for oenology can be dangerous, as they haven't really grasped the concept of a wine tasting yet.
  • (6) Hybrid strains, with desirable oenological properties, were obtained by mass spore-cell mating between a heterothallic killer yeast and two homothallic sensitive strains and all were shown to have unique DNA fingerprints and electrophoretic karyotypes.
  • (7) Recently, oenological prejudices were challenged by the use of a points scoring system (from 50 to 100) to evaluate wine in a book now widely regarded as one of the most authoritative.
  • (8) Casting his powerfully subversive, silent gaze round the table as a wine master held forth, Baker seemed determined to get his fellow members to "corpse": he had no time whatever for oenological waffle.
  • (9) This is why they are only used in analytic oenology when chemical analysis is most specific enough or too laborious.

Penology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science or art of punishment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The judges also stressed that their ruling was not intended to give any prospect of imminent release for the murderers: "Whether or not they should be released would depend, for example, on whether there were still legitimate penological grounds for their continued detention and whether they should continue to be detained on grounds of dangerousness."
  • (2) Where is the understanding and realisation that penology requires a whole-system approach, not an issue-by-issue kneejerk response?
  • (3) In the following the far-reaching implications of these results for penological practice and perspectives for further studies are discussed.
  • (4) "There is no compelling evidence that the New Jersey death penalty rationally serves a legitimate penological intent."

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